2018

Systems and methods for detecting and locating unsecured sensors in a network

Shen, Joyce, Corey Ouellette, Amit Shavit, and Jennifer Singh. Systems and Methods for Detecting and Locating Unsecured Sensors in a Network. U.S. Patent 10,951,643, filed March 14, 2018, and issued March 16, 2021.

Abstract

A system, method and non-transitory computer readable medium for detecting unsecured sensors in a network. A computing system can find an IP address associated with an unsecured sensor based on a port through which the unsecured sensor communicates with the network. The computing system can ascertain a prefix route associated with the IP address for the unsecured sensor based on a portion of the IP address. The computing system can determine geographic coordinate data associated with the prefix route. The computing system can identify location data of a set of facilities within a specified geographic radius of the geographic coordinate data. The computing system can associate the unsecured sensor with a first one of the facilities in the set of facilities based on a distance between geographic coordinate data and the location data associated with the first one of the facilities being less than a specified distance threshold.

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