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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 19, 2023
Zscaler, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Shoham Danino, Tel Aviv, IL;
Aharon Fridman, Tel Aviv, IL;
Zscaler, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for access key abuse detection, the systems and methods including steps of receiving activity data relating to an access key from cloud providers associated with a cloud-based system, generating a baseline for the access key based on the activity data, monitoring activities associated with the access key in the cloud-based system, and calculating a score for monitored activities based on a comparison of the monitored activities to the baseline. The present scoring system helps identify an abnormal and risky activity that indicates an attacker is abusing the access key. In addition, a baseline is created for a plurality of selected attributes that present the normal access key usage in order to identify malicious abnormal activities.