Patent Document ID: 9461984
Application ID: 14866634
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A computer-implemented method for blocking flanking attacks on computing systems, at least a portion of the method being performed by a computing device comprising at least one processor, the method comprising: detecting a denial-of-service attack targeting a computing network that comprises a software-defined network; inferring, based at least in part on detecting the denial-of-service attack, a secondary attack targeting at least one computing resource within the computing network; determining that the computing resource is sensitive; determining that the computing resource is subject to additional protection based on inferring the secondary attack targeting the computing resource and based on determining that the computing resource is sensitive; protecting the computing resource against the secondary attack by adding an authentication requirement for accessing the computing resource, wherein adding the authentication requirement comprises modifying the software-defined network to interpose an authentication system that implements the authentication requirement between the computing resource and at least a portion of the computing network; determining that the secondary attack is not targeting the computing resource; removing the authentication requirement in response to determining that the secondary attack is not targeting the computing resource.