METHOD AND SYSTEM THAT ENHANCES COMPUTER-SYSTEM SECURITY BY IDENTIFYING AND BLOCKING HARMFUL COMMUNICATIONS THROUGH COMPONENT INTERFACES

摘要

The current document is directed to methods and systems that monitor communications through system-component interfaces to detect and block harmful requests and other harmful communications. In a disclosed implementation, a machine-learning-based defender security component is trained, using a minimax-based optimization method similar to that used in generative adversarial networks, to recognize harmful requests and other harmful communications intercepted by the defender from any of various communications paths leading to system-component interfaces, such as a service interface to services provided by a distributed application. The defender passes through harmless messages to their target interfaces and takes various actions with respect to detected harmful messages, including blocking the harmful messages, modifying the harmful messages prior to passing them through to their target interfaces, and other actions.