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SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC SERVICE DISCOVERY AND PROTECTION

  • US 20160285847A1
  • Filed: 03/21/2016
  • Published: 09/29/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/23/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system for automatically discovering services operating on a network, the system comprising:

  • a service discovery database configured to store expected service behavioral characteristics and service identities of the services operating on the network, each service identity associated with a set of the expected service behavioral characteristics in the service discovery database;

    A set of service discovery modules, the set of service discovery modules configured to collect service behavioral data of the services operating on the network; and

    A service discovery module controller communicatively coupled to the service discovery module database and the set of service discovery modules, the service discovery module controller configured to;

    generate a first set of service behavioral characteristics from the service behavioral data;

    analyze the first set of service behavioral characteristics using the expected service behavioral characteristics, resulting in a first behavioral analysis; and

    identify a first service identity of at least one service operating on the network, from the first behavioral analysis and an association of the first service identity and a first set of the expected service behavioral characteristics.

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