Automatically generating a fingerprint prevalence database without ground truth

• Main Authors: Anderson, Blake Harrell, McGrew, David Arthur
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 17.01.2023
• Subjects: ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION

Techniques and mechanisms for using passively collected network data to automatically generate a fingerprint prevalence database without the need for endpoint ground truth. The process first clusters all observations with the same fingerprint string and similar source and destination context. The pr...