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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 27, 2019
Systems and methods for tracking, predicting, and mitigating advanced persistent threats in networks
Ciena Corporation, Hanover, MD (US);
Sachin Subhedar, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Roger Michael Elbaz, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Aung Htay, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Ciena Corporation, Hanover, MD (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for tracking, predicting, and mitigating Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) attacks in a network include obtaining data related to events and triggers for one or more attacks, wherein the data includes a plurality of i) virtual currency transactions, ii) network traffic flow, and iii) sentiment on any of social media, blogs, and news feeds; correlating the data with one or more subscribed entities; determining a threat index for an attack on a specific subscribed entity of the one or more subscribed entities through analysis of the correlated data, wherein the threat index provides a probability of the attack on the specific subscribed entity; and notifying the specific subscribed entity of a likelihood of the attack based on the threat index.