Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Rule-based network-threat detection
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Application No.: US16706388Application Date: 2019-12-06
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Publication No.: US10609062B1Publication Date: 2020-03-31
- Inventor: David K. Ahn , Keith A. George , Peter P. Geremia , Pierre Mallett, III , Sean Moore , Robert T. Perry , Jonathan R. Rogers
- Applicant: Centripetal Networks, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US NH Portsmith
- Assignee: Centripetal Networks, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Centripetal Networks, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US NH Portsmith
- Agency: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.
- Main IPC: H04L29/06
- IPC: H04L29/06 ; H04L12/26

Abstract:
A packet-filtering device may receive packet-filtering rules configured to cause the packet-filtering device to identify packets corresponding to network-threat indicators. The packet-filtering device may receive packets and, for each packet, may determine that the packet corresponds to criteria specified by a packet-filtering rule. The criteria may correspond to one or more of the network-threat indicators. The packet-filtering device may apply an operator specified by the packet-filtering rule. The operator may be configured to cause the packet-filtering device to either prevent the packet from continuing toward its destination or allow the packet to continue toward its destination. The packet-filtering device may generate a log entry comprising information from the packet-filtering rule that identifies the one or more network-threat indicators and indicating whether the packet-filtering device prevented the packet from continuing toward its destination or allowed the packet to continue toward its destination.
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