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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 26, 2019
Palo Alto Networks (Israel Analytics) Ltd., Tel Aviv, IL;
Asaf Dahan, Tel Aviv, IL;
Rony Brailovsky, Tel Aviv, IL;
Yaron Neuman, Zoran, IL;
Idan Amit, Ramat Gan, IL;
Yinnon Meshi, Kibbutz Revivim, IL;
PALO ALTO NETWORKS (ISRAEL ANALYTICS) LTD., Tel Aviv, IL;
Abstract
Methods, apparatus and computer software products implement embodiments of the present invention that include protecting a computing system by defining a list of network access messages that are indicative of human use of computing devices, and extracting, from data traffic transmitted over a data network connecting a plurality of the computing devices to multiple Internet sites, respective transmissions from the computing devices to the Internet sites. A given transmission including one of the network access messages in the list is detected in the transmissions from a given computing device, and the given computing device is classified as being operated by a human in response to detecting the given transmission. Upon identifying suspicious content in the transmissions from a subset of the computing devices that includes the given computing device, any suspicious transmissions from the given computing device are ignored in response to the classification.