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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 13, 2022
Wiz, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Matilda Lidgi, Tel Aviv, IL;
Shai Keren, Tel Aviv, IL;
Raaz Herzberg, Tel Aviv, IL;
Avi Tal Lichtenstein, Tel Aviv, IL;
Ami Luttwak, Binyamina, IL;
Roy Reznik, Tel Aviv, IL;
Wiz, Inc., New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A system and method for performing active inspection of vulnerability exploitation in a cloud computing environment. The method includes receiving at least one network path to access a first resource, wherein the first resource is a cloud object is deployed in the cloud computing environment and having a known vulnerability, wherein the first resource is potentially accessible from a network which is external to the cloud computing environment; actively inspecting the at least one network path to determine if the first resource is accessible through the at least one network path from a network external to the cloud computing environment; and triggering the known vulnerability to determine if the first resource can be exploited with the known vulnerability, in response to determining that the first resource is accessible through the external network.