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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7899901 | Method and apparatus for exercising and debugging correlations for network security system A selected time interval of previously stored security events generated by a number of computer network devices are replayed and cross-correlated according to rules defining security incidents. Meta-events are generated when the security events satisfy conditions as... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7861299 | Threat detection in a network security system A network security system is provided that receives information from various sensors and can analyze the received information. In one embodiment of the present invention, such a system receives a security event from a software agent. The received security event incl... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7809131 | Adjusting sensor time in a network security system Sensor device times can vary and may be set significantly wrong. In one embodiment, the present invention can adjust a sensor's time by receiving a raw security event from a sensor device, determining whether a timestamp included in the raw security event is within ... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7788722 | Modular agent for network security intrusion detection system The present invention provides for the receipt of a request to modify a software agent's configuration at a server-based manager. A determination of the modifications to the software agent is made at the server-based manager. The requested modifications are then del... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7650638 | Network security monitoring system employing bi-directional communication The present invention provides for the receipt of a heartbeat message transmitted from a software agent within a host machine to a server-based agent manager. The server-based agent manager analyzes the heartbeat message to determine the identity of the sending soft... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7647632 | Object reference in a system A system can be configured using configuration objects that have the ability to refer to one another. In one embodiment, the present invention includes such a system having a plurality of objects used to configure the system, each object having a uniform resource id... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7644438 | Security event aggregation at software agent A network security system can have a plurality of distributed software agents configured to collect security events from network devices. In one embodiment, the agents are configured to aggregate the security events. In one embodiment of the present invention, an ag... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7607169 | User interface for network security console A user interface for a network security console associated with multiple network security devices is disclosed. A graphical user interface (GUI) for use with an intrusion detection system, comprises a radar display that is configured to simulate a stream of time-bas... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7565696 | Synchronizing network security devices within a network security system Clocks used by network security devices can be synchronized by a network security system. In one embodiment, the synchronization can include the network security system receiving a first stream of alerts from a first network security device having a first clock, eac... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7509677 | Pattern discovery in a network security system Patterns can be discovered in security events collected by a network security system. In one embodiment, the present invention includes collecting and storing security events from a variety of monitor devices. In one embodiment, a subset of the stored security event... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7437359 | Merging multiple log entries in accordance with merge properties and mapping properties A system and method for building merged events from log entries received from multiple devices. Multiple log events generally contribute to a single merged event. In the described embodiment, the mapping module receives log entries associated with specific merged ev... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7424742 | Dynamic security events and event channels in a network security system A query for security event can be represented as an event channel. The event channel may be displayed as a grid of events. In one embodiment, the events included in the event channel are dynamic and can change after initial observation. In one embodiment, the presen... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7376969 | Real time monitoring and analysis of events from multiple network security devices Security events generated by a number of network devices are gathered and normalized to produce normalized security events in a common schema. The normalized security events are cross-correlated according to rules to generate meta-events. The security events may be ... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7333999 | Expression editor A prefix expression tree showing an expression can be supplemented to also display the expression in infix notation. In one embodiment, the present invention includes displaying an expression being capable of representation in infix and prefix notation in prefix exp... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7260844 | Threat detection in a network security system A network security system is provided that receives information from various sensors and can analyse the received information. In one embodiment of the present invention, such a system receives a security event from a software agent. The received security event incl... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7219239 | Method for batching events for transmission by software agent In one embodiment, the present invention provides for receiving security events from a network device by a distributed software agent of a network security system, determining a priority of each received security event, and storing the security events in a plurality... | 05/15/2007 |
