US Patent 9407646 Applying a mitigation specific attack detector using machine learning

In one embodiment, a device in a network detects a network attack using aggregated metrics for a set of traffic data. In response to detecting the network attack, the device causes the traffic data to be clustered into a set of traffic data clusters. The device causes one or more attack detectors to analyze the traffic data clusters. The device causes the traffic data clusters to be segregated into a set of one or more attack-related clusters and into a set of one or more clusters related to normal traffic based on an analysis of the clusters by the one or more attack detectors.