ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,050, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Radware Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel).
"Techniques for detecting cyber-attack scanners" was invented by Lev Medvedovsky (Netanya, Israel) and David Aviv (Tel Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for detecting and mitigation a cyber-attack scanner are provided. The method includes determining if a source network address designated in a received packet is suspicious as of a cyber-attack scanner, wherein the determination is based on a likelihood that the source address was previously frequently encountered; upon determining that the source network address is suspicious, deter...