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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2006
Filed:
Aug. 30, 2001
Steven Black, Round Rock, TX (US);
Herve Debar, Caen, FR;
John Michael Garrison, Austin, TX (US);
Andreas Wespi, Mettmenhasli, CH;
Steven Black, Round Rock, TX (US);
Herve Debar, Caen, FR;
John Michael Garrison, Austin, TX (US);
Andreas Wespi, Mettmenhasli, CH;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
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—'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.