Patent ID: 11935131
Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 7:
8. An insurance audit method comprising:
installing a monitoring device within a communication path between an intra-organization network comprising a plurality of information processing devices and a communication network, the monitoring device being one or more of a unified threat management (UTM) device, an intrusion detection system (IDS), and an intrusion prevention system (IPS);
monitoring, by the monitoring device, each of a plurality of communications occurring within a predetermined period of time between the information processing devices of the intra-organization network and the communication network and identifying which of the communications satisfy specific conditions as to one or multiple of communication source, communication destination, communication protocol, and communication content;
acquiring, by an insurance audit device and from the monitoring device, a monitoring result pertaining to the communications occurring within the predetermined of time, the monitoring result comprising the identified communications that satisfy the specific conditions, as occurrences of predetermined communication events and
conducting, by the insurance audit device, an audit related to insurance covering the intra-organization network based on the monitoring result,
wherein the monitoring device is installed to monitor the communications for conducting the audit related to the insurance based on the monitoring result.