Microsoft Corporation
Whitelisting of trusted accessors to restricted web pages

Abstract:

"Sensitive" URIs for a website can be determined. Access attempts to a sensitive URI can be extracted from server logs. As used herein, sensitive URIs are URIs which if breached are likely to result in harm to the website owner. Access to sensitive URIs can be restricted to trusted accessors. Trusted accessors can be determined by filtering out untrusted accessors using thresholds and/or machine learning techniques. After filtering out untrusted accessors, any remaining accessors can be identified as trusted accessors. Trusted accessors can be added to a whitelist. Access requests to access-restricted URIs by an accessor not in the whitelist can be denied and an alert can be generated. Access requests to access-restricted URIs by an accessor in the whitelist can be granted.