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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2015
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Deb Banerjee, Cupertino, CA (US);
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented method for blocking flanking attacks on computing systems may include (1) detecting a denial-of-service attack targeting a computing network, (2) inferring, based at least in part on detecting the denial-of-service attack, a secondary attack targeting at least one computing resource within the computing network, (3) determining that the computing resource is subject to additional protection based on inferring the secondary attack targeting the computing resource, and (4) protecting the computing resource against the secondary attack by adding an authentication requirement for accessing the computing resource. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.