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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2025
Filed:
May. 31, 2024
Imperva, Inc., San Mateo, CA (US);
Shiri Margel, Petak Tikva, IL;
Yury Geiler, Holon, IL;
Imperva, Inc., San Mateo, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed herein is a method by a computing system to classify network entities. The method includes receiving, by a first stage classifier, database logs and enterprise directory information, attempting to classify, by the first stage classifier during a first stage, a plurality of network entities appearing in the database logs into network entity types based on analyzing the database logs and the enterprise directory information, clustering, by a clustering component, the plurality of network entities into groups based on host name, classifying, by a second stage classifier during a second stage, one or more network entities of the plurality of network entities that were not able to be classified during the first stage into network entity types based on group types of the groups that the one or more network entities were clustered into, and outputting a network entity type of each of the plurality of network entities.