Wiz Assigned Patent

Wiz, Inc., New York, NY, has been assigned a patent (11936785) developed by Shemesh, Daniel Hershko, Givat-Shmuel, Israel, Miran, Yarin, Rishon Lezion, Israel, Reznik, Roy, Tel Aviv, Israel, Luttwak, Ami, Binyamina, Israel, Costica, Yinon, Shaked, Yaniv, and Moscovici, Eyal, Tel Aviv, Israel, for “system and method for encrypted disk inspection utilizing disk cloning techniques.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A system and method for inspecting encrypted disks for a cybersecurity object using a custom key are disclosed. The method includes detecting an encrypted disk in a cloud computing environment, the cloud computing environment including a security policy service, authorizing a key policy on the security policy service for a custom key of an inspector account, wherein the key policy is a policy authorized to decrypt the encrypted disk, generating a second encrypted disk based on the encrypted disk, inspecting the second encrypted disk for a cybersecurity object with the custom key, and releasing a resource allocated to the second encrypted disk in response to completing the inspection.”

The patent application was filed on 2023-10-04 (18/481088).