MUMBAI, India, May 30 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202321079724 A) filed by Tata Consultancy Services Limited, Maharashtra, on Nov. 23, 2023, for 'method and system for protecting serverless cloud architecture using honeypots.'
Inventor(s) include Garg, Surabhi; Singh Dilip Thakur, Meena; Bhattachar, Rajan Mindigal Alasingara; and Lodha, Sachin Premsukh.
The application for the patent was published on May 30, under issue no. 22/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Even though serverless computing has advantages like lower cost, simplified scalability, simplified backend code and quicker turnaround, they have also given rise to a new form of cyber-attacks. Most of the conventional approaches are reactive based where steps are taken to control the aftereffects of an attack and preventive mechanism is of less focus. The present honeypot based approach for serverless cloud architecture, honeypots capture unauthorized users in order to provide security of the overall system. The honeypots redirect the attackers to a set of dummy nodes that form a random loop. Using a controlled time based loop, the attacker could be trapped for a maximum amount of time, thus penalizing the attacker by a negative award. It would result in exhaustion of resources and bandwidth of attacker. The present disclosure is also applicable to multi-cloud or hybrid cloud setup."
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