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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 09, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 10, 2012
Masergy Communications, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Michael Roy Stute, Plano, TX (US);
Masergy Communications, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods of detecting emergent behaviors in communications networks are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method may include decomposing a plurality of data packets into a plurality of component data types associated with a candidate alert representing a potential security threat in a network. The method may also include retrieving, from a database, a count for each of a plurality of historical data types matching at least a subset of the component data types, each of the counts quantifying an amount of data of a corresponding historical data type previously detected in the network in a given time period. The method may further include calculating a score that indicates a discrepancy between an amount of data in each of the subset of the component data types and the counts for each corresponding historical data type in the same time period, and handling the candidate alert based upon the score.