Internet-facing device identification

• Main Authors: Schachter, Lior Menachem, Goldshtein, Haim, Goldbaum, Dor, Yassour, Yoav
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 25.04.2023
• Subjects: ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION

Technology described herein determines whether a device is Internet facing. An Internet facing device is a device where traffic coming from the Internet is routable to the device. The technology described herein may comprise two components that work together to identify Internet-facing devices. The first component is a monitoring agent installed on organizational devices. The second component is an Internet-facing management service, which may be cloud based. The monitoring agent communicates connection-event notices to the Internet-facing management service. The source IP address in the connection-event notice is compared to a list of organizational IP addresses. If the source IP address is not on the list, then the computing device associated with the notice is added to a list of Internet-facing devices because the connection originated from the Internet. Software listed in the connection-event notice may be added to a list of internet-facing software instances.