Spoofing Detection
AssigneeOl Security Limited Liability Company
InventorsElaine Harvey, Matthew Walnock
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Abstract
A method for detecting spoofing by wireless access devices. In some embodiments, spoofing can be detected based on locations for a wireless access device having an identifier at first and second times. The locations are compared to determine whether the wireless access device could access the particular network at the locations in the time period between the first and second times. In several embodiments, spoofing can be detected by tracking the activity of wireless access devices and identifying events that that are prohibited by one or more policy elements of the particular network.
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A non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon that, in response to execution by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform operations, the operations comprising:
- receiving a first state of a wireless access device and a first communication device to which the wireless access device is communicating over a particular network at a first time at a particular node of a plurality of nodes;
- receiving or generating a first event for the wireless access device identifying the first state and the first communication device;
- receiving a second state of the wireless access device and a second communication device to which the wireless access device is communicating over the particular network at a second time at the particular node of the plurality of nodes;
- receiving or generating a second event for the wireless access device identifying the second state and the second communication device in response to determining that at least one of:
- the first state and the second state are different, and
- the first communication device and the second communication device are different;
- and
- checking the first and second events with a collector device for activities prohibited by one or more policy elements of the particular network, wherein the collector device is configured with the one or more policy elements.
An apparatus comprising:
- a collector device;
- a plurality of nodes in communication with the collector device;
- and
- wherein the plurality of nodes in communication with the collector device are configured to:
- receive a first state of a wireless access device and a first communication device to which the wireless access device is communicating over a particular network at a first time at a particular node of the plurality of nodes;
- receive or generate a first event for the wireless access device identifying the first state and the first communication device;
- receive a second state of the wireless access device and a second communication device to which the wireless access device is communicating over the particular network at a second time at the particular node of the plurality of nodes;
- receive or generate a second event for the wireless access device identifying the second state and the second communication device in response to determining that at least one of:
- the first state and the second state are different, and
- the first communication device and the second communication device are different;
- and
- check the first and second events with a collector device for activities prohibited by one or more policy elements of the particular network, wherein the collector device is configured with the one or more policy elements.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.