Patent ID: 9026840
Filing Date: 2015-05-05
Classification: G06F,H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for using corresponding detection data from multiple distributed network devices to detect suspicious network device activity, the method comprising: identifying, at an evaluating network device, a suspicious activity condition, wherein evaluation of the condition includes evaluating data from each of a plurality of network devices that corresponds to a suspect network device; detecting, at the evaluating network device, activity of the suspect network device, wherein the evaluating network device and suspect network device are part of a same network; receiving, at the evaluating network device and from each of one or more other network devices, a communication that includes data corresponding to the suspect network device, wherein the evaluating network device and the one or more other network devices are part of the same network, and wherein the network is configured to facilitate reciprocal monitoring of network-device activity amongst network devices in the network; determining, at the evaluating network device, that the suspicious activity condition is satisfied based on the data corresponding to the suspect network device from each of the one or more other network devices and the detected activity; and transmitting, in response to the determining that the suspicious activity condition is satisfied, an alert communication that identifies the suspect network device and corresponds to an indication that the suspicious activity condition has been satisfied.