Oracle International Corporation

Christopher James Ries

Christa Agnes Johnson Scura

Kevin Raymond, Jr

Nikkolas Anthony Lavorato

Philip Nathan Andrews, Iii

Chao Feng

Brian H Xu

Philip Andrews

Kevin Raymond

Christa Scura

Techniques for using honeypots to lure attackers and gather data about attackers and attack patterns on Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) instances. The gathered data may then be analyzed and used to proactively prevent such attacks.

Honeypots for infrastructure-as-a-service security

A method of distinguishing between human and computer actions in a cloud environment includes receiving one or more actions from a monitored cloud environment; identifying a text string associated with the one or more actions; calculating an entropy value for the text string; determining whether the text string is bot-generated based at least in part on the entropy value; and determining whether to generate an alert based at least in part on a result of determining whether the text string is bot-generated.

Entropy-based classification of human and digital entities

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Saratoga, CA, United States of America

Christopher James Ries