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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2011
Filed:
May. 23, 2007
Security system for and method of detecting and responding to cyber attacks on large network systems
Paul G. Gonsalves, Bolton, MA (US);
Catherine Dudley Call, Seattle, WA (US);
Stephen Ho, Cambridge, MA (US);
David Lapsley, North Andover, MA (US);
Paul G. Gonsalves, Bolton, MA (US);
Catherine Dudley Call, Seattle, WA (US);
Stephen Ho, Cambridge, MA (US);
David Lapsley, North Andover, MA (US);
Charles River Analytics, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
An improved security system for and method of detecting and responding to cyber attacks on a network or network element. The system comprises: (a) an intelligent agent-based information retrieval subsystem configured so as to automatically search for and retrieve relevant data from distributed sources; (b) a rule-based inferencing mechanism configured so as to interpret retrieved data within the situational context to support event and alert generation for cyber threat assessment and prediction; and (c) a threat assessment and prediction mechanism configured so as to capture relating to the interrelationship between cyber sensor outputs and cyber attacks.