- Patent Title: System and method for correlating network identities and addresses
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Application No.: US12693803Application Date: 2010-01-26
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Publication No.: US08438270B2Publication Date: 2013-05-07
- Inventor: Jason Nappier , Ron Gula
- Applicant: Jason Nappier , Ron Gula
- Applicant Address: US MD Columbia
- Assignee: Tenable Network Security, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Tenable Network Security, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US MD Columbia
- Agency: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
- Main IPC: G06F15/173
- IPC: G06F15/173

Abstract:
The system and method for correlating network identities and addresses described herein may include a log correlation engine distributed on a network that identifies relationships between certain network identities and Internet Protocol (IP) and Ethernet addresses in the network. In particular, the log correlation engine may analyze various event logs that describe activity in a network to learn relationships between network identities and network addresses and generate alerts in response to discovering changes in the learned relationships. For example, the log correlation engine may identify authentication events described in the logs to map network identities to IP addresses, and may further analyze the logs to map the IP addresses to Ethernet addresses. Thus, the log correlation engine may discover new and changed relationships between the network identities, the IP addresses, and the Ethernet addresses.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110185055A1 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CORRELATING NETWORK IDENTITIES AND ADDRESSES Public/Granted day:2011-07-28
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