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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2024
Filed:
Dec. 04, 2019
Awake Security Llc, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Troy Kent, Jr., Durham, NC (US);
Gary Golomb, Los Gatos, CA (US);
ARISTA NETWORKS, INC., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
System and method to identify a security entity in a computing environment is disclosed. Communication between a user computer and at least one destination computer by a security appliance is monitored by a security appliance. Selective information from the communication is extracted. A primary fingerprint is generated using a subset of the selective information. The generated primary fingerprint is evaluated for a match in an application ID database. When there is a match, corresponding application ID is assigned to the communication, wherein the application ID is associated with an application that generated the communication.