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What happened

In October 2026 Wiz patented cloud-security technology for finding permission-escalation risks across computing environments by examining cloned disks and identity relationships.

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Abstract

A system and method for detecting a permission escalation event in a computing environment is disclosed. The method includes: generating a cloned disk based on an original disk of a resource deployed in a computing environment; detecting an identifier of a first principal on the cloned disk; detecting a second principal in the computing environment, the first principal authorized to assume the first principal; storing a representation of the computing environment in a security database, including: a first principal node representing the first principal, and a second principal node representing the second principal, further associated with a permission; querying the representation to determine a permission of the first principal; determining that the second principal includes a permission which the first principal does not include based on a result of querying the representation; and generating a permission escalation event.

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Signal
Patent grant

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Grant date
Oct 27, 2026
Inventors
4
Tech area
networking / data transmission
Patent number
US12777061

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People

  • Daniel Hershko ShemeshInventor
  • Yarin MiranInventor
  • Roy ReznikInventor
  • Ami LuttwakInventor
  • Yinon CosticaInventor
  • Avihai BerkovitzInventor

Details

Primary CPC class
H04L 63/1433 (Transmission of digital information)
USPTO assignee
Wiz, Inc.
What the invention does
A method that copies a system disk, maps the identities found on it to identities in the live environment, and flags paths that could grant unauthorized permissions.

Topics and mentions

Tags

  • Intellectual Property
  • Research & Development
  • Cyber Security
  • Information Security

Technologies named

  • cloud security
  • identity mapping
  • disk cloning
  • permission analysis

Extraction

Detected
Oct 30, 2026
signal_type
patents-company
signal_subtype
patentGrant

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