US Patent Issued to Imperva on June 24 for "Packet fingerprinting for enhanced distributed denial of service protection" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,807, issued on June 24, was assigned to Imperva Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Packet fingerprinting for enhanced distributed denial of service protection" was invented by Jonathan R. Azaria (Beit Gamliel, Israel) and Avishay Zawoznik (Tel-Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method by one or more network devices implementing a scrubbing center for mitigating distributed denial of service attacks, where the scrubbing center is communicatively coupled to a plurality of clients and one or more servers. The method includes determining a set of packet fingerprints seen in a set of packets sent between the plurality of clients and th...