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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 2008
Filed:
Aug. 26, 2003
Iven Connary, Atlanta, GA (US);
Darin J. Buck, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Matthew F. Caldwell, Atlanta, GA (US);
Robert T. Hughes, Warner Robins, GA (US);
Iven Connary, Atlanta, GA (US);
Darin J. Buck, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Matthew F. Caldwell, Atlanta, GA (US);
Robert T. Hughes, Warner Robins, GA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Network devices such as intrusion detection systems, routers, firewalls, servers, and other network devices are monitored to aggregate all event data generated by monitored devices to provide a threat ranking of all network activity. A threat level for a given host is determined by a threat weighting assigned to that host and a threat weighting assigned to that host's netblock. In addition, a vulnerability for a given event is determined by the event's destination threat associated with a vulnerability value indexed by the event's destination and the event's type.