ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,947, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel).
"DNS tunneling detection and prevention" was invented by Erez Israel (Tel Aviv, Israel), Dan Karpati (Even-Yehuda, Israel), Eitan Shterenbaum (Kiryat-Ono, Israel) and Lior Goldman (Raanana, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and devices are provided for differentiating between benign DNS data and malicious DNS data included in DNS traffic using an autoencoder. The autoencoder receives input DNS data and is trained to successfully encode the input DNS data when the input DNS data is benign DNS data and to fail to encode the i...