Intellectual Property India Publishes Patent Application for 'Systems And Methods For Extensible, Modular, And Hierarchical Step-Up Authentication' Filed by Zscaler, Inc.

MUMBAI, India, Nov. 7 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202441035160 A) filed by Zscaler, Inc., San Jose, U.S.A., on May 3, 2024, for 'systems and methods for extensible, modular, and hierarchical step-up authentication.'

Inventor(s) include Rahul Singh; Manish Jasyal; Murtuza Attarwala; and Wei Wang.

The application for the patent was published on Nov. 7, under issue no. 45/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Systems and methods for a hierarchical step-up authentication mechanism include monitoring (902) access to one or more private applications (402, 404); responsive (904) to a request to access the one or more private applications, determining an Authentication Level (AL) of a user (102) associated with the request, wherein determining the AL of the user comprises referencing one or more AL trees; and responsive (906) to determining an AL of the user, performing one or more actions based thereon, wherein the one or more actions comprises one of allowing access to the one or more private applications (402, 404) and denying access to the one or more private applications (402, 404)."

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