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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 12, 2023

Filed:

Jul. 12, 2022
Applicant:

Netskope, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Colin Estep, Eagle, ID (US);

Siying Yang, Saratoga, CA (US);

Jenko Hwong, San Mateo, CA (US);

Gustavo Palazolo Eiras, São Paulo, BR;

Yongxing Wang, San Ramon, CA (US);

Dagmawi Mulugeta, London, GB;

Raymond Joseph Canzanese, Jr., Philadelphia, PA (US);

Assignee:

Netskope, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01); G06Q 20/40 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/1425 (2013.01); G06Q 20/4016 (2013.01);
Abstract

The technology disclosed relates to a method, system, and non-transitory computer-readable media that classifies cloud traffic between a client and cloud application as malicious command and control (C2) cloud traffic or benign cloud traffic. A cloud traffic classifier, in communication with a network security system, is provided intercepted cloud traffic as an input, and generate an output that classifies the cloud traffic as malicious command and control (C2) cloud traffic or benign cloud traffic. The classifier may use signals such as beaconing behavior, anomalous entity, anomalous agent, anomalous username, anomalous username, anomalous agent, cat's paw behavior of the client, anomalous hostname access patterns, and/or malicious task sequence execution.


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