Patent ID: 7921459
Filing Date: 2011-04-05
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for gathering security event data and rendering result data in a manageable format, the method comprising the steps of: a plurality of security devices generating security event data comprising a plurality of alerts in response to detecting a security event in a distributed computing environment, the security devices being logically coupled to a computer having a display; the computer presenting a user interface via the display for configuring an event data report that identifies a portion of the security event data; the computer receiving a selection via the user interface of one or more user-configurable variables operable for filtering the security event data, the user-configurable variables comprising at least one of a location of a security event, a source of a security event, and a destination address of a security event; the computer collecting the security event data generated by the plurality of security devices; the computer filtering the collected security event data using the one or more user-configurable variables to produce result data for the event data report, the filtering comprising passing collected security event data that matches the user-configurable variables as result data while blocking collected security event data that does not match the user-configurable variables from the result data; the computer transmitting the result data to one or more clients; and the one or more clients displaying the event data report comprising the result data.