BACKGROUND

Hacking and malware can incapacitate a network supplying critical functionality to a business and/or customers. When hacking is discovered on a network, it can be difficult to secure the network and remove the hacker from the network. Once a hacker has gained access to a network, the hacker learns information about the network settings of the network. This learned information aids the hacker in subsequent attempts to access the network. Conventional tactics are to reconfigure a network. However, reconfiguring a network can be time consuming and is usually done manually on an iterative implementation. This mode of reconfiguring allows the hacker too much time to learn the reconfigured network settings during the process. Further, the reconfiguring can lead to decreased functionality of the network while being implemented.

BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE DESCRIPTION

The following presents a simplified summary of the innovation in order to provide a basic understanding of some aspects of the innovation. This summary is not an extensive overview of the innovation. It is not intended to identify key/critical elements of the innovation or to delineate the scope of the innovation. Its sole purpose is to present some concepts of the innovation in a simplified form as a prelude to the more detailed description that is presented later.

The innovation disclosed and claimed herein, in one aspect thereof, comprises systems and methods of reconfiguring networks. The systems and methods monitor a network having a plurality of network segments. The systems and methods detect a foothold event at a first network segment, wherein the first network segment includes a set of network settings. The systems and methods can reconfigure the set of network settings of the first network segment upon detecting the foothold event. The systems and methods can analyze the foothold event for severity; and determine a reconfiguration layer based on the severity of the foothold event, wherein the reconfiguration layer determines a subset of network settings of the set of network settings to be reconfigured.

The systems and methods can dismantle the first network segment such that the first network segment becomes offline or no longer part of the network. The systems and methods can generate a second network segment having the reconfigured set of network settings and replace the first network segment with the second network segment.

In aspects, the subject innovation provides substantial benefits in terms of network security. One advantage resides in increasing the difficulty to maintain a hack of a network. Another advantage resides in automatically reconfiguring network settings while maintaining communication paths between networked nodes.

To the accomplishment of the foregoing and related ends, certain illustrative aspects of the innovation are described herein in connection with the following description and the annexed drawings. These aspects are indicative, however, of but a few of the various ways in which the principles of the innovation can be employed and the subject innovation is intended to include all such aspects and their equivalents. Other advantages and novel features of the innovation will become apparent from the following detailed description of the innovation when considered in conjunction with the drawings.

