US Patent Issued to Imperva on March 11 for "Batch clustering of online attack narratives for botnet detection" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,244, issued on March 11, was assigned to Imperva Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Batch clustering of online attack narratives for botnet detection" was invented by Ori Nakar (Givat Shemuel, Israel) and Amit Leibovitz (Givat Shemuel, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes identifying, from online clustering data, an internet protocol (IP) pair. The method further includes determining, by a processing device during an offline process, that the IP pair is part of a botnet. The method further includes, in response to the determining, appending data associated with the botnet to the online clustering data."

The patent was fi...