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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2024
Filed:
Mar. 02, 2022
Applicant:
Palo Alto Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Connor Leete Gilbert, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Michael Haggblade, San Bruno, CA (US);
Assignee:
Palo Alto Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01); H04L 69/16 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/1416 (2013.01); H04L 63/0236 (2013.01); H04L 63/0245 (2013.01); H04L 63/0428 (2013.01); H04L 63/1433 (2013.01); H04L 63/20 (2013.01); H04L 63/205 (2013.01); H04L 69/169 (2013.01);
Abstract
Hierarchical scanning begins with communicating probes over the Internet to ports and networks addresses to determine publicly accessible devices. Based on responses to those probes, follow-up probes are determined to obtain additional information about the publicly accessible devices. The probes are transmitted from a system that is external to the networks corresponding to the network addresses. This provides an external view of the scanned networks and facilitates a probing paradigm that scales beyond a few networks.