Patent ID: 9584531
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method of collecting and analyzing information about network traffic on a server, the method comprising: a. receiving a first information packet from a network device, the first information packet having been generated based on information associated with a first data packet passing through the network device; b. analyzing the first information packet; c. sending one or more instructions to the network device to modify one or more properties of a subsequently sent second information packet based on information associated with a second data packet passing through the network device subsequent to the first data packet, the second information packet including at least a partial copy of the second data packet; d. receiving from the network device the second information packet having the one or more properties modified based on the sent instructions; and e. generating an alert about a possible cyber-attack based, at least in part, on information from the second information packet.