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Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2017

Filed:

Oct. 21, 2014
Applicant:

Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Yun Shen, Dublin, IE;

Olivier Thonnard, Alpes-Maritimes, FR;

Assignee:

Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/57 (2013.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/1416 (2013.01);
Abstract

The disclosed computer-implemented method for identifying security threat sources responsible for security events may include (1) identifying security-event data collected from a plurality of security events detected over a network, (2) partitioning the security-event data into a set of single-dimensional security clusters, each grouped by a common feature, (3) determining that a subset of the single-dimensional security clusters exceed a threshold level of similarity relative to one another, (4) grouping the subset of single-dimensional clusters into a multi-dimensional security cluster corresponding to a single threat source in response to determining that the subset of single-dimensional clusters exceed the threshold level of similarity relative to one another, and then (5) determining, based at least in part on grouping the single-dimensional clusters into the multi-dimensional cluster, that the single threat source is likely responsible for some of the security events. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.


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