International Business Machines Corporation

Steven Black

John Michael Garrison

Herve Debar

Andreas Wespi

RoseAnne Swart

A method, computer program product, and apparatus for presenting data about security-related events that puts the data into a concise form is disclosed. Events are abstracted into a set data-type. Sets with common elements are grouped together, and summaries of the groups&#x2014;'situations'&#x2014;are presented to a user or administrator.

Presentation of correlated events as situation classes

An event handler is provided that associates events from heterogeneous data sources. In a first phase, incoming events are translated to vectors of event attributes. Based on the data source, implicit information about the event and its attributes may be available. This information is used to normalize the information provided by the event. Normalization actions may include renaming the attributes, deriving new attributes from given attributes, and transforming attribute value ranges. In a second phase, a determination is made as to whether two or more events are considered to be associated based on the vectors. Different vectors of core attributes may be created in order to create associations with different semantics.

Method, apparatus, and program for associating related heterogeneous events in an event handler

A method, computer program product, and apparatus for presenting data about security-related events that puts the data into a concise form is disclosed. Events are abstracted into a set data-type. Sets with common elements are grouped together, and summaries of the groups&#x2014;'situations' are established from groups whose severity exceeds a threshold value. These groups and situations are then propagated up a hierarchical arrangement of systems and further aggregated so as to provide summary information over a larger group of systems. This hierarchical scheme allows for scalability of the event correlation process across larger networks of systems.

Hierarchical correlation of intrusion detection events

A method, apparatus, and computer implemented instructions for handling a situation in a data processing system. In response to detecting a situation, an aging function is applied to the situation. Alerts regarding the situation based on the aging function are presented.

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