US Patent Issued to Imperva on June 17 for "Layer 7 network attack detection using machine learning feature contribution" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,301, issued on June 17, was assigned to Imperva Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Layer 7 network attack detection using machine learning feature contribution" was invented by Ori Nakar (Givat Shemuel, Israel) and Jonathan Roy Azaria (Beit Gamliel, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to detecting new attack vectors in web application servers based on analyzing requests (e.g., HTTP/S requests) that were flagged as attacks by a machine learning web application firewall (ML WAF) but not by a rule-based WAF. Such requests may be grouped together using a clustering algorithm, and the features that a...