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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 10, 2003
Kenny Tidwell, Los Altos, CA (US);
Christian Beedgen, San Jose, CA (US);
Hugh S. Njemanze, Los Altos, CA (US);
Pravin S. Kothari, San Jose, CA (US);
Kenny Tidwell, Los Altos, CA (US);
Christian Beedgen, San Jose, CA (US);
Hugh S. Njemanze, Los Altos, CA (US);
Pravin S. Kothari, San Jose, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A network security system having a hierarchical configuration is provided. In one embodiment the present invention includes a plurality of subsystems, where each subsystem includes a plurality of distributed software agents configured to collect base security events from monitor devices, and a local manager module coupled to the plurality of distributed software agents to generate correlated events by correlating the base security events. Each subsystem can also include a filter coupled to the manager module to select which base security events are to be processed further. The selected base security events are passed to a global manager module coupled to the plurality of subsystems that generates global correlated events by correlating the base security events selected for further processing by each filter of each subsystem.