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Date of Patent:
Dec. 22, 2020

Filed:

Aug. 28, 2018
Applicant:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);

Inventor:

Thomas C. Stickle, Saint James, NY (US);

Assignee:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); G06F 9/54 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/1491 (2013.01); G06F 9/54 (2013.01); H04L 63/1416 (2013.01);
Abstract

A decoy network-based service uses a decoy credential to lure an attacker to access the decoy network-based service, and monitors the attacker's activity with respect to the decoy network-based service to determine the attacker's motivation. In various examples, a decoy credential is published on an Internet-accessible site, and a system that provides a network-based service (e.g., a service provider network) subsequently receives an access request from a computing device that includes the decoy credential. Based on the decoy credential, the computing device may be provided access to a decoy network-based service, and application programming interface (API) calls made by the computing device may be routed through a decoy control plane. The data relating to the API calls may be stored and analyzed to determine a motivation of the attacker, which may be used in various downstream applications to improve security for customers of the network-based service.


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