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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 23, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 18, 2016
Fireeye, Inc., Milpitas, CA (US);
Shrikrishna Karandikar, Fremont, CA (US);
Muhammad Amin, Fremont, CA (US);
Shivani Deshpande, Fremont, CA (US);
Yasir Khalid, Fremont, CA (US);
FireEye, Inc., Milpitas, CA (US);
Abstract
In an embodiment, a system, device and method for detecting a malicious attack is described. Herein, the system includes a security network device that conducts an analysis on received network traffic to detect a suspicious object associated with the network traffic and determine an identifier associated with a source of the suspicious object. Both information associated with the suspicious object and ancillary data, including information that identifies a return path for analysis results to a customer, are uploaded to a detection cloud. The detection cloud includes provisioning logic and one or more virtual machines that are provisioned by the provisioning logic in accordance with at least a portion of the ancillary data. The provisioning logic to customize functionality of the detection cloud for a specific customer.