Zscaler was granted a patent for SDLC-based application segmentation.

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    "patent_abstract": "Systems and methods for generating SDLC-based application segments include defining a set of applications, the set of applications comprising a plurality of applications associated with a tenant of the cloud-based system; generating a plurality of application pairs from the set of applications; analyzing applications within each application pair of the plurality of application pairs for filtering the plurality of application pairs, the analyzing comprising a plurality of similarity checks and identification of environment key words; and generating one or more application segments each comprising one or more applications from the set of applications based on the filtering.",
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