Method for directing audited data traffic to specific repositories

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9106682-B2
Application number	US-201313937196-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 8, 2013
Priority date	Dec 8, 2012
Publication date	Aug 11, 2015
Grant date	Aug 11, 2015

Abstract

Data traffic is monitored on a network and data access elements thereof are collected. The collected data access elements are compared to security rules providing sets of predefined data access elements for identifying predefined data accesses. First audit data collections for data accesses are sent to a first repository. For a data access that matches one of the rules, a second audit data collection defined by the matching rule is sent to at least a second repository designated by the matching rule.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer-implemented method for auditing data traffic, the computer-implemented process comprising:
monitoring data traffic on a network and collecting data access elements thereof;
comparing the collected data access elements to security rules providing sets of predefined data access elements for identifying predefined data accesses;
sending first audit data collections for data accesses to a first repository and, for a data access that matches a firs…

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Foley Sean C
• Segal Ury
• Shan Shidong

Classifications

• H04L63/1408 Primary

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• H04L63/14

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• H04L63/1425

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• H04L41/0893

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• H04L41/0894

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