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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 10, 2005
Timothy D. Keanini, Novato, CA (US);
Andrew Molitor, San Francisco, CA (US);
John-mark Gurney, Oakland, CA (US);
Jeremy Cooper, Petaluma, CA (US);
Brian Buchanan, San Leandro, CA (US);
Timothy D. Keanini, Novato, CA (US);
Andrew Molitor, San Francisco, CA (US);
John-Mark Gurney, Oakland, CA (US);
Jeremy Cooper, Petaluma, CA (US);
Brian Buchanan, San Leandro, CA (US);
Tripwire, Inc., Portland, OR (US);
Abstract
A system comprises a security manager to scan a network for host instances representing hosts on the network at that time, and record characteristics of the host instances in a host record. The security manager subsequently scans the network for host instances in order to identify persistent hosts. A host profiling module takes snapshots of the network to generate host instances based on characteristics such as an IP address, a NetBIOS name, a DNS name, a MAC address. A host matching module correlates host instances from different snapshots using weighted rules (predetermined or customized) to discriminate between multiple potential matching host instances. Also, security logic makes security decisions based on data including persistent host information.