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

Claim 14:
15. A system for implementing a dynamic virtual database honeypot, the system comprising:
a memory;
a processor;
local data storage having stored thereon computer executable code, wherein the computer executable code includes the program instruction executable by a processor to cause the processor to perform a method, the method comprising:
relaying a query request received from a database client to a database;
receiving, from the database, a response relating to the query request;
determining the query request is an attack on the database based on session information relating to the database and the database client;
generating a honey token based on information contained within the response;
generating an alternate response formatted in a same format as the response and containing artificial information that masks the information contained within the response;
inserting the honey token into the alternate response that contains the masked information; and
transmitting the alternate response to the database client.