US Patent Issued to Zscaler on Oct. 21 for "Synthetic audit events in workload segmentation" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,210, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Zscaler Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Synthetic audit events in workload segmentation" was invented by Peter Nahas (Watertown, Mass.), Michael J. Melson (Arlington, Mass.), Scott Laplante (Bedford, N.H.) and Raymond Brian Liu (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods include operating a local security agent that is configured to allow or block flows based on security policies, to implement microsegmentation; and, responsive to a block of a flow, creating a synthetic audit event that reflects what the flow would have been had it not been blocked. The steps can include crea...