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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2017
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Keith Newstadt, Newton, MA (US);
Ilya Sokolov, Boston, MA (US);
CA, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
The disclosed computer-implemented method for identifying untrusted devices in peer-to-peer communication may include (i) collecting first communication protocol MAC addresses and second communication protocol MAC addresses, (ii) determining which of the first communication protocol MAC addresses corresponds to which of the second communication protocol MAC addresses, and (iii) storing correlations between the first communication protocol MAC addresses and the second communication protocol MAC addresses. A correlation between a first communication protocol MAC address and a second communication protocol MAC address may indicate a single device having both addresses. The method may also include (i) detecting a communication on the second communication protocol, (ii) determining whether the detected communication is from an untrusted device, and (iii) performing a security action when the detected communication is from the untrusted device. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.