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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 06, 2017
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A system for detecting a targeted attack by a first machine on a second machine is provided. The system includes an application including instructions to: according to first parameters, group alerts for attacking machines; each group of alerts corresponds to attacks performed by a respective one of the attacking machines, and each of the alerts is indicative of a possible attack performed by one of the attacking machines; according to second parameters, group metadata corresponding to attacked machines implementing cloud applications; based on the group of metadata corresponding to the second machine and one or more co-factors, evaluate one or more alerts corresponding to attacks performed by the first machine on the second machine relative to alerts associated with attacks performed by the first machine on other machines or attacks performed by the attacking machines; and alert the second machine of the targeted attack.