Patent ID: 11888893
Assignee: RADWARE LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method for characterizing application layer denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, comprising:
generating a plurality of dynamic applicative signatures by analyzing at the application layer application layer requests received during an on-going DDoS attack, wherein a dynamic applicative signature characterizes each received application layer request based on frequent applicative application layer attributes appearing in the received application layer requests;
characterizing each of the received application layer requests based on one of the generated dynamic applicative signatures, wherein the characterization provides an indication for each received application layer request whether a received application layer request is generated by an attack tool executing the on-going DDoS attributes; and
causing a mitigation action on the received application layer request generated by the attack tool based on the generated dynamic applicative signature.