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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 11, 2010
Applicants:
Jonathan Polley, Baltimore, MD (US);
William Andrew Vogel, Iii, Baltimore, MD (US);
Inventors:
Jonathan Polley, Baltimore, MD (US);
William Andrew Vogel, III, Baltimore, MD (US);
Assignee:
Sourcefire, Inc., Columbia, MD (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/173 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system includes a processor device. The processor device is configured to detect a physical topology of a network comprising hosts and sensors in the network. The processor device is also configured to generate a sensor policy for assignment of the sensors to network blocks of the hosts, that balances a processing load and accuracy of the sensors in the network based on physical closeness of the sensors to different divisions of hosts within a same network block.