US Patent 10063582 Securing compromised network devices in a network

Securing compromised network devices in a network. In one embodiment, a method may include (a) identifying a Positive Unlabeled (PU) machine learning classifier, (b) selecting labeled positive samples and unlabeled positive and negative samples as a bootstrap subset of training data from a set of training data, (c) training the PU machine learning classifier, (d) repeating (a)-(c) one or more times to create a set of trained PU machine learning classifiers, (e) predicting probabilities that a network device in a network has been compromised using each of the trained PU machine learning classifiers, (f) combining the probabilities predicted at (e) to generate a combined risk score for the network device, (g) repeating (e)-(f) one or more times to create a ranked list of combined risk scores, and (h) performing a security action on one or more of the network devices in the ranked list.