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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 12, 2024
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Cheng-Ta Lee, Cumming, GA (US);
Mauro Marzorati, Lutz, FL (US);
Christopher A. Kulakowski, Austin, TX (US);
M Krishnakant Achary, Malkangiri, IN;
Priti P Patil, Pune, IN;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An embodiment includes detecting by a system a request, responsive to the detecting of the request, computing by a Compute component of the system a plurality of internet protocol addresses in a subnet. The embodiment includes computing by an Analysis component of the system a threat metric for each of the plurality of internet protocol addresses. The embodiment includes determining by the Reputation component of the system a threat score for the subnet where the threat score is based on the threat metric. The embodiment also includes sending by the system the threat score representative of a vulnerability of the subnet as a source of a malicious attack.