Patent ID: 8856928
Filing Date: 2014-10-07
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of protecting a secure network from malicious communications, the method comprising: configuring, on the secure network, receiving circuitry to identify communications that include a particular user identifier; storing the particular user identifier in a server remote from the secure network; receiving, at the secure network, a particular communication; verifying, by the receiving circuitry, whether the particular communication includes the particular user identifier; issuing an alert when the particular communication includes the particular user identifier; not issuing the alert when the particular communication does not include the particular user identifier, wherein the server hosts a website of a social network and maps values of the user identifier corresponding to each employee of the set of employees to an employee profile on the social network; wherein storing the particular user identifier includes: sending the particular user identifier to the server, the server generating an employee profile of a false employee on the social network from the particular user identifier wherein the particular communication that includes the particular user identifier is sent by a malicious user and further includes identification information identifying the malicious user; and wherein the method further comprises: extracting the identification information identifying the malicious user; and issuing the alert upon receiving communications that include the identification information identifying the malicious user.