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CONFIDENCE SCORING OF DEVICE REPUTATION BASED ON CHARACTERISTIC NETWORK BEHAVIOR

  • US 20140379902A1
  • Filed: 08/12/2013
  • Published: 12/25/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/19/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of evaluating reputation of a requestor device that makes a request to a cloud-based resource, including:

  • providing an initial response to the requestor device that includes an instrumented web page or instructions to be processed by an application running on the requestor device, wherein the initial response includes code adapted to;

    collect data regarding at least network round trip latency between the requestor device and four or more target addresses andreport the network round trip latency for the target addresses;

    compiling a characteristic vector for the requestor device including at least the reported network round trip latency for the target addresses;

    scoring the characteristic vector for similarity to expected characteristics of a first reference device at a first reference IP address expected to share network round trip latency characteristics with the requestor device; and

    producing at least one reputation score.

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