Alert Logic, Inc.

Paul Fisher

Eugene Golovinsky

Pavel S Trakhtman

Mikhail Govshteyn

Christopher A Church

Anton Lavrik

Evgeny Bob

Hugues Martel

A configurable system and method for automatically taking in streams of log data from various sources, dynamically parsing, normalizing the data and routing it to subsystems of an analytics engine. The routed data may undergo aggregating and other enrichment based on content, rules and data, so as to generate useful event observations, which may recursively be fed back into the system's data ingestion stream to further enhance the usefulness of the system's outputs, in real-time, in the context of computer system and data security.

Dynamic computer threat alert system and method

A log message collection system selects a configured host and fetches a log message. The log message collection system examines the fetched message to identify one or more DLLs necessary to translating the log message and determines whether the necessary DLL(s) have been loaded into a cache. If so, the log message is translated. If the DLLs are not in the cache, the log message collection system fetches from the log message host only the DLLs necessary to translate that fetched message. After the message is translated, the log message collection system fetches the next log message, identifies the necessary DLLs for that log message, and fetches the DLLs necessary to translate that message.

Log message collection employing on-demand loading of message translation libraries

An appliance is co-located on a network with computing devices. Log messages generated by the computing devices are collected by the appliance, filtered based on the content and stored in transmission priority queues based on the content. The appliance packetizes the log messages based on the transmission priority queue and the available bandwidth and compresses the packet. The appliance encrypts the packet, digitally signs the encrypted packet and sends the packet to a first data center over a public network. The first data center stores the packet in reliable storage and performs processing on the data. A copy of the packet is sent to a second data center that stores the copy and performs processing on the copied data. The appliance deletes the packet from its buffer after it has received acknowledgement that the second data center has received the packet.

Log message archiving and processing using a remote internet infrastructure

Methods and systems for normalizing log messages. Some methods include obtaining a freeform log message from one of many disparate programs. The methods can include determining which program originated the message and, based on that, determining a signature which matches the message. Using the signature, a parsing expression may be determined with which to extract information from a portion of the message. The time from obtaining the message to extracting the information can be about the same for all messages and can be about 1/40,000of a second. In some embodiments, a generic signature of the message may be output. A version of the message may be reconstructed based on the generic signature and information. When more than one message signatures matches the reconstructed message, one of the matching signatures can be adjusted. The parsing expression can be the first of an ordered list of expressions which successfully evaluates the log message.

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