US Patent Issued to Zscaler on Nov. 25 for "System and method for utilizing DHCP relay to accomplish quarantining client endpoints in a ransomware protected network" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,589, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Zscaler Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"System and method for utilizing DHCP relay to accomplish quarantining client endpoints in a ransomware protected network" was invented by Raymond Wing Chon Cheh (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Satish M. Mohan (San Jose, Calif.), Vinay Adavi (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Ritesh R. Agrawal (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique to stop lateral movement of ransomware between endpoints in a VLAN is disclosed. A security appliance is set as the default gateway for intra-LAN communication by overwriting the DHCP responses. Message traffic from compromised endpoi...