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Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2026

Filed:

Jun. 26, 2023
Applicant:

Palo Alto Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Albert Estevez Polo, Barcelona, ES;

Didac Gil De La Iglesia, Sant Fost de Campsentelles, ES;

Jack Stephen Edmonds, Santa Jose, CA (US);

Shuhong Chen, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Praveen Tiwari, Milpitas, CA (US);

Gaurav Sharma, Mountain View, CA (US);

Bhanu Teja Sriram, Roswell, GA (US);

Assignee:

Palo Alto Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/40 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/0263 (2013.01); H04L 63/0236 (2013.01); H04L 63/104 (2013.01);
Abstract

A security configuration gap analysis system described herein infers roles of source and destination entities of a zone in a network at an organization. The system infers the roles by generating feature values from clustering traffic logs and extracting fields from configuration files of the zone and applying rules to the feature values that output a source/destination role pair. The system additionally compares the identified role pair to best practices to identify security services not implemented or correctly implemented at the firewall for the zone.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Estevez Polo, Albert. (2026). Auto inferring source/destination roles of network zones for improved security posture recommendations (U.S. Patent No. 12556514). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/12556514

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