Device obfuscation in electronic networks
AssigneeARM IP Limited
InventorsSamuel Marc Town, Milosch Meriac
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Abstract
A method, electronic apparatus and computer program for device obfuscation in electronic networks, comprising determining at least one device type of at least one physical device operable to be at least intermittently attached to a wireless network; generating a pattern of wireless network activity associated with the at least one device type; exposing over the wireless network a plurality of non-functional messages conforming to the pattern; and operating a purported sender and receiver of each of the plurality of messages to obscure at least one of an exploitable characteristic and an exploitable state of the at least one device type with respect to the wireless network.
Claims18
A machine-implemented method, comprising:
- determining at least one device type of at least one physical device operable to be at least intermittently attached to a wireless network;
- generating a pattern of wireless network activity associated with said at least one device type;
- exposing over said wireless network a plurality of non-functional messages conforming to said pattern;
- and
- operating a purported sender and receiver of each of said plurality of messages to obscure at least one of an exploitable characteristic and an exploitable state of said at least one device type with respect to said wireless network.
An electronic apparatus comprising logic circuitry arranged to, in operation:
- determine at least one device type of at least one physical device operable to be at least intermittently attached to a wireless network;
- generate a pattern of wireless network activity associated with said at least one device type;
- expose over said wireless network a plurality of non-functional messages conforming to said pattern;
- and
- operate a purported sender and receiver of each of said plurality of messages to obscure at least one of an exploitable characteristic and an exploitable state of said at least one device type with respect to said wireless network.
A computer program product tangibly stored on a non-transitory medium comprising computer program code to, when loaded into a computer and executed thereon, cause said computer to operate logic circuitry to:
- determine at least one device type of at least one physical device operable to be at least intermittently attached to a wireless network;
- generate a pattern of wireless network activity associated with said at least one device type;
- expose over said wireless network a plurality of non-functional messages conforming to said pattern;
- and
- operate a purported sender and receiver of each of said plurality of messages to obscure at least one of an exploitable characteristic and an exploitable state of said at least one device type with respect to said wireless network.
A computer-implemented method of deploying a service comprising steps of deploying computer program code operable to, when deployed into a computer network and executed thereon, cause components of said computer network to operate logic circuitry to:
- determine at least one device type of at least one physical device operable to be at least intermittently attached to a wireless network;
- generate a pattern of wireless network activity associated with said at least one device type;
- expose over said wireless network a plurality of non-functional messages conforming to said pattern;
- and
- operate a purported sender and receiver of each of said plurality of messages to obscure at least one of an exploitable characteristic and an exploitable state of said at least one device type with respect to said wireless network.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.