Patents by Inventor Manuel Nedbal

Manuel Nedbal has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 12261875
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are discussed for automatically determining a risk-based focus in determining zero trust network access policy on one or more network elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Fortinet, Inc.
    Inventors: Rajiv Sreedhar, Manuel Nedbal, Manoj Ahluwalia, Latha Krishnamurthi, Rajeshwari Rao, Damodar K. Hegde, Jitendra B. Gaitonde, Dave Karp, Mark Lubeck
  • Patent number: 12218956
    Abstract: A method in an embodiment includes detecting a change for a virtual machine in a virtual server of a virtual network infrastructure, determining whether a virtual security appliance is configured in the virtual server, and sending a request to create the virtual security appliance in the virtual server. The method further includes allowing the virtual machine to initiate when the virtual security appliance is created in the virtual machine. The virtual security appliance performs security inspections on network packets sent from the virtual machine. In more specific embodiments, the method further includes creating an intercept mechanism in the virtual server to intercept the network packets from the virtual machine. In further embodiments, one or more security policies identify one or more virtual security appliances to process the network packets from the virtual machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Musarubra US LLC
    Inventors: Geoffrey Howard Cooper, Manuel Nedbal, Hemang Satish Nadkarni
  • Publication number: 20240380774
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are discussed for automatically determining a risk-based focus in determining zero trust network access policy on one or more network elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2024
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Applicant: Fortinet, Inc.
    Inventors: Rajiv Sreedhar, Manuel Nedbal, Manoj Ahluwalia, Latha Krishnamurthi, Rajeshwari Rao, Damodar K. Hegde, Jitendra B. Gaitonde, Dave Karp, Mark Lubeck
  • Publication number: 20240340294
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses enable one or more security microservices to resolve the disparate impact of security exploits to resources within a resource group. When a resource group is determined to be impacted by a security exploit, the one or more security microservices determines whether the members of the resource group are disparately impacted. In response, the one or more security microservices splits the resource group into an impacted resource group and a non-impacted resource group and applies exploit mitigation to the resource group members in the impacted resource group. When the one or more security microservices determine that the resource group members of the split resource group are no longer disparately impacted, the one or more security microservices combine the impacted resource group and the non-impacted resource group back into a single resource group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2024
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Applicant: Fortinet, Inc.
    Inventors: Manuel Nedbal, Ratinder Paul Singh Ahuja, Sumanth Gangashanaiah
  • Patent number: 12081577
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are discussed for automatically determining a risk-based focus in determining zero trust network access policy on one or more network elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Fortinet, Inc.
    Inventors: Rajiv Sreedhar, Manuel Nedbal, Manoj Ahluwalia, Latha Krishnamurthi, Rajeshwari Rao, Damodar K Hegde, Jitendra B. Gaitonde, Dave Karp, Mark Lubeck
  • Publication number: 20240244069
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses enable one or more security microservices to resolve the disparate impact of security exploits to resources within a resource group. When a resource group is determined to be impacted by a security exploit, the one or more security microservices determines whether the members of the resource group are disparately impacted. In response, the one or more security microservices splits the resource group into an impacted resource group and a non-impacted resource group and applies exploit mitigation to the resource group members in the impacted resource group. When the one or more security microservices determine that the resource group members of the split resource group are no longer disparately impacted, the one or more security microservices combine the impacted resource group and the non-impacted resource group back into a single resource group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2024
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Applicant: Fortinet, Inc.
    Inventors: Manuel Nedbal, Ratinder Paul Singh Ahuja, Sumanth Gangashanaiah
  • Patent number: 12041065
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses enable one or more security microservices to resolve the disparate impact of security exploits to resources within a resource group. When a resource group is determined to be impacted by a security exploit, the one or more security microservices determines whether the members of the resource group are disparately impacted. In response, the one or more security microservices splits the resource group into an impacted resource group and a non-impacted resource group and applies exploit mitigation to the resource group members in the impacted resource group. When the one or more security microservices determine that the resource group members of the split resource group are no longer disparately impacted, the one or more security microservices combine the impacted resource group and the non-impacted resource group back into a single resource group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Fortinet, Inc.
    Inventors: Manuel Nedbal, Ratinder Paul Singh Ahuja, Sumanth Gangashanaiah
  • Patent number: 11997069
    Abstract: Example firewalls disclosed herein populate a first dynamic object of a firewall rule with first information to identify a first updateable set of devices that satisfy a first one of a plurality of conditions associated with the firewall rule, the first information based on first data obtained from an appliance that monitors communication traffic in at least a portion of a network. Disclosed example firewalls also populate a second dynamic object of the firewall rule with second information to identify a second updateable set of devices that satisfy a second one of the conditions associated with the firewall rule, the second information based on second data obtained from a data source different from the appliance. Disclosed example firewalls further apply, based on evaluation of the first dynamic object and the second dynamic object, the firewall rule to first network traffic associated with a first device in communication with the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: McAfee, LLC
    Inventors: Bikram Kumar Gupta, Ananth Raman, Manuel Nedbal, Elanthiraiyan A. Anbalagan
  • Publication number: 20240048564
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are discussed for forward testing rule sets at a granularity that is less than all activity on the network. In some cases, the granularity is that of an individual application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: Fortinet, Inc.
    Inventors: Rajiv Sreedhar, Manuel Nedbal, Manoj Ahluwalia, Damodar K. Hegde, Jitendra B. Gaitonde, Suresh Rajanna, Mark Lubeck, Gary Nool
  • Patent number: 11757888
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are discussed for forward testing rule sets at a granularity that is less than all activity on the network. In some cases, the granularity is that of an individual application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Fortinet, Inc.
    Inventors: Rajiv Sreedhar, Manuel Nedbal, Manoj Ahluwalia, Damodar K. Hegde, Jitendra B. Gaitonde, Suresh Rajanna, Mark Lubeck, Gary Nool
  • Publication number: 20230069738
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are discussed for automatically determining a risk-based focus in determining zero trust network access policy on one or more network elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Applicant: Fortinet, Inc
    Inventors: Rajiv Sreedhar, MANUEL NEDBAL, MANOJ AHLUWALIA, LATHA KRISHNAMURTHI, RAJESHWARI RAO, DAMODAR K. HEGDE, JITENDRA B. GAITONDE, Dave Karp, Mark Lubeck
  • Patent number: 11533341
    Abstract: Technologies for performing security monitoring services of a network functions virtualization (NFV) security architecture that includes an NVF security services controller and one or more NFV security services agents. The NFV security services controller is configured to transmit a security monitoring policy to the NFV security services agents and enforce the security monitoring policy at the NFV security services agents. The NFV security services agents are configured to monitor telemetry data and package at least a portion of the telemetry for transmission to an NFV security monitoring analytics system of the NFV security architecture for security threat analysis. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Kapil Sood, Valerie J. Young, Muthaiah Venkatachalam, Manuel Nedbal
  • Publication number: 20220400114
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are discussed for forward testing rule sets at a granularity that is less than all activity on the network. In some cases, the granularity is that of an individual application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Applicant: Fortinet, Inc.
    Inventors: Rajiv Sreedhar, MANUEL NEDBAL, MANOJ AHLUWALIA, DAMODAR K. HEGDE, JITENDRA B. GAITONDE, SURESH RAJANNA, MARK LUBECK, GARY NOOL
  • Publication number: 20220400113
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are discussed for determining zero trust network access policy from a policy from a perspective focused on one or more network elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Applicant: Fortinet, Inc
    Inventors: Rajiv Sreedhar, Manuel Nedbal, Damodar K. Hegde, Jitendra B. Gaitonde, Manoj Ahluwalia
  • Publication number: 20220400116
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are discussed for determining zero trust network access policy based upon intent defined groups of workloads.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Applicant: Fortinet, Inc.
    Inventors: RAJIV SREEDHAR, MANUEL NEDBAL, DAMODAR K. HEGDE, JITENDRA B. GAITONDE, MANOJ AHLUWALIA, LATHA KRISHNAMURTHI, RAJESHWARI RAO
  • Publication number: 20220286483
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses enable a machine learning model to determine a risk probability of a URL. A query configurator receives a URL in a query and normalizes the URL. The normalized URL is segmented into a plurality of segments. The plurality of segments is serially provided to the machine learning model trained to provide an indication of risk associated with the URL. The indication of risk associated with the URL can be a probability value based on one or more risk probabilities determined for segment-segment transitions of the URL. A security service compares the probability value of the URL to a threshold value and performs a security action based on a result of comparing the probability value to the threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: Fortinet, Inc.
    Inventors: Rajiv Sreedhar, Ratinder Paul Singh Ahuja, Manuel Nedbal, Toshal Phene, Jitendra Gaitonde
  • Patent number: 11368486
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses enable a machine learning model to determine a risk probability of a URL. A query configurator receives a URL in a query and normalizes the URL. The normalized URL is segmented into a plurality of segments. The plurality of segments is serially provided to the machine learning model trained to provide an indication of risk associated with the URL. The indication of risk associated with the URL can be a probability value based on one or more risk probabilities determined for segment-segment transitions of the URL. A security service compares the probability value of the URL to a threshold value and performs a security action based on a result of comparing the probability value to the threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Fortinet, Inc.
    Inventors: Rajiv Sreedhar, Ratinder Paul Singh Ahuja, Manuel Nedbal, Toshal Phene, Jitendra Gaitonde
  • Patent number: 11368488
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses enable one or more security microservices to optimize a security configuration of a networked environment by applying security policies to resource groups passively to determine whether network sets, resource groups, or security policies should be modified, prior to active enforcement. When security policies are applied passively, security actions that are performed in response to a violation of security policy do not impact network traffic. The one or more security microservices evaluate the results of the passive application of security policies to determine whether there is at least one recommended modification to network sets, resource groups, or security policies. When there is at least one recommended modification, the modification is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Fortinet, Inc.
    Inventors: Manuel Nedbal, Ratinder Paul Singh Ahuja, Manoj Ahluwalia, Jitendra Gaitonde, Rajiv Sreedhar, Ojas Milind Kale, Mark Raymond Lubeck, Yuk Suen Cheng, Suresh Rajanna, David Dvir Adler, Gary Nool
  • Patent number: 11171969
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described herein generally relating to network security, and in particular, embodiments described generally relate to real-time configurable load determination. For example, a method is disclosed, which calls for receiving a request to perform a security service, performing the security service on data included with the request; calculating a service load associated with and during the performing the security service, and transmitting a response to the request, wherein the response includes the calculated service load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Fortinet, Inc.
    Inventors: Ratinder Paul Singh Ahuja, Manuel Nedbal
  • Publication number: 20210344692
    Abstract: A method in an embodiment includes detecting a change for a virtual machine in a virtual server of a virtual network infrastructure, determining whether a virtual security appliance is configured in the virtual server, and sending a request to create the virtual security appliance in the virtual server. The method further includes allowing the virtual machine to initiate when the virtual security appliance is created in the virtual machine. The virtual security appliance performs security inspections on network packets sent from the virtual machine. In more specific embodiments, the method further includes creating an intercept mechanism in the virtual server to intercept the network packets from the virtual machine. In further embodiments, one or more security policies identify one or more virtual security appliances to process the network packets from the virtual machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Applicant: McAfee, LLC
    Inventors: Geoffrey Howard Cooper, Manuel Nedbal, Hemang Satish Nadkarni