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Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2019

Filed:

Dec. 20, 2016
Applicant:

Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventor:

Ravindra Guntur, Mysore, IN;

Assignee:

Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); G06F 16/28 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/1491 (2013.01); G06F 16/285 (2019.01); H04L 63/1416 (2013.01); H04L 63/1425 (2013.01); H04L 63/1433 (2013.01);
Abstract

A computer-implemented method for creating a deception computing system may include (i) identifying, by a computing device, a dataset of security alert signatures from a set of client devices, (ii) determining, by the computing device, a set of software vulnerabilities based on the dataset of security alert signatures, (iii) clustering, by the computing device, the set of software vulnerabilities to increase a length of at least one potential attack path within a predetermined number of honeypot machines, and (iv) distributing, by the computing device and based on clusters of software vulnerabilities, a set of vulnerable software among a set of honeypot machines within a honeynet. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.


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