Patent ID: 11876829
Assignee: ATTACKIQ, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 9:
10. The method of claim 1, wherein accessing a set of agents assigned as actors in the simulation of the malicious attack on the target computer network comprises:
identifying a set of internal machines, within the second computer network, involved in the malicious attack on the second computer network based on addresses of source machines and addresses of destination machines associated with data interchanges represented by the set of data packets; and
for each internal machine in the set of internal machines:
accessing a set of characteristics of the internal machine;
identifying an internal asset, within the target computer network, exhibiting characteristics analogous to the set of characteristics of the internal machine; and
designating an agent, installed on the internal asset, as an actor to simulate the internal machine during the simulation of the malicious attack on the target network.