Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Using the state of a request routing mechanism to inform attack detection and mitigation
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Application No.: US16409517Application Date: 2019-05-10
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Publication No.: US12063245B2Publication Date: 2024-08-13
- Inventor: Richard E. Willey , Ruben E. Brown , Daniel E. Cooper
- Applicant: Akamai Technologies Inc.
- Applicant Address: US MA Cambridge
- Assignee: Akamai Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Akamai Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Cambridge
- Main IPC: H04L9/40
- IPC: H04L9/40 ; H04L67/10

Abstract:
Among other things, this document describes systems, methods and apparatus for identifying and mitigating network attacks, particularly botnet attacks and other volumetric attacks. In some embodiments, a distributed computing platform provides client-facing service endpoints and a request routing mechanism (request router or RR) directing clients to a particular service endpoint or cluster thereof to obtain a service. The state of the RR at a given time is communicated to enforcement points in the system, which may be cluster equipment, service endpoints, or other components. When client traffic arrives at a particular enforcement point it is checked for consistency with the RR's directions, referred to as ‘mapping consistency’. This information is incorporated into decisions about how to handle the packets from the client.
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