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Date of Patent:
Apr. 06, 2021

Filed:

Sep. 26, 2018
Applicant:

Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventor:

Bruce McCorkendale, Manhattan Beach, CA (US);

Assignee:

NortonLifeLock, Inc., Tempe, AZ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/108 (2013.01); H04L 63/102 (2013.01); H04L 63/1433 (2013.01); H04L 63/20 (2013.01);
Abstract

The disclosed computer-implemented method for performing micro-segmenting may include (i) identifying at least a portion of a device, (ii) measuring a variance value that indicates a level of variance in terms of websites accessed by the portion of the device over a period of time, and (iii) locking, in response to determining that the variance value satisfies a threshold level of simplicity, the portion of the device by applying a security profile to the portion of the device that limits the portion of the device to accessing a set of websites that is defined in terms of the websites accessed by the portion of the device over the period of time. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.


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