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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 25, 2010
Bruce Gordon Barnett, Troy, NY (US);
John Erik Hershey, Ballston Lake, NY (US);
Daniel Thanos, Stouffville, CA (US);
Bruce Gordon Barnett, Troy, NY (US);
John Erik Hershey, Ballston Lake, NY (US);
Daniel Thanos, Stouffville, CA (US);
General Electric Company, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Abstract
A system and method for monitoring a network and detecting network vulnerabilities is provided. A communication associated with one or more programs is issued to one or more devices in a network and the response from the devices is detected and analyzed. Based on the analysis, a device response is identified as a threat response if it represents at least an alert, an unexpected response or a response time-out indicating that the device did not response to the communication. The vulnerability of the network is determined based on the threat responses of the devices.