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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 26, 2017
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Christopher Gates, Marina Del rey, CA (US);
Kyle Soska, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Kevin Alejandro Roundy, El Segundo, CA (US);
SYMANTEC CORPORATION, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Securing a network device by automatically identifying files belonging to an application. In one embodiment, a method may include collecting file attributes for multiple files from multiple network devices, examining a hash of file contents of each of the multiple files to identify multiple unique files in the multiple files, summarizing the file attributes for each of the multiple unique files to generate a sketch of file attributes for each of the multiple unique files, clustering the multiple unique files into multiple applications, making a security action decision for one application of the multiple applications, and performing a security action on a network device based on the security action decision.