Patent ID: 11947694
Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 7:
8. A computer program product including computer readable storage media of implementing a dynamic virtual database honeypot, having computer executable instructions that when executed by at least one computer cause the at least one computer to execute the instructions to:
relay a query request received from a database client to a database;
receive, from the database, a response relating to the query request;
determine the query request is an attack on the database based on session information relating to the database and the database client;
generate a honey token based on information contained within the response;
generate an alternate response formatted in a same format as the response and containing artificial information that masks the information contained within the response;
insert the honey token into the alternate response that contains the masked information; and
transmit the alternate response to the database client.