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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 27, 2004
Kenny Tidwell, Los Altos, CA (US);
Christian Beedgen, San Jose, CA (US);
Kenny Tidwell, Los Altos, CA (US);
Christian Beedgen, San Jose, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TN (US);
Abstract
Different network segments can have overlapping address spaces. In one embodiment, the present invention includes a distributed agent of a security system receiving a security event from a network device monitored by the agent. In one embodiment, the agent normalizes the security event into an event schema including one or more zone fields. In one embodiment, the agent also determines one or more zones associated with the received security event, the one or more zones each describing a part of a network, and populates the one or more zone fields using the determined one or more zones.