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Detection and mitigation of slow application layer DDoS attacks

US11991205B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateDec 23, 2020
Grant dateMay 21, 2024
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Expiry dateAug 7, 2041

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L2463/141
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method and system for protecting cloud-hosted applications against application-layer slow DDoS attacks are provided. The system include a processing circuitry; and a memory connected to the processor, the memory contains instructions that when executed by the processing circuitry, configure the system to: collect telemetries from a plurality of sources deployed in a plurality of public cloud computing platforms, wherein each of the plurality of public cloud computing platforms hosts an instance of a protected cloud-hosted application; provide a set of rate-based and rate-invariant features based on the collected telemetries; evaluate each feature in the set of rate-based and rate-invariant features to determine whether a behavior of each feature and a behavior of the set of rate-based and rate-invariant features indicate a potential application-layer slow DDoS attack; and cause execution of a mitigation action, when an indication of a potential application-layer slow DDoS attack is determined.

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