Patent ID: 8726380
Filing Date: 2014-05-13
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of providing security for a communications network comprising: monitoring, using a programmed computer processor circuit, data at an edge of the communications network, that is outside a backbone of the communications network, the data being received at the edge from outside the backbone of the communications network; determining, at the edge, that the data being monitored at the edge comprises a security threat to the communications network; reporting the data determined at the edge to be the security threat to a central management system associated with the backbone; and blocking the data at the edge responsive to determining at the edge that the data is the security threat to the communications network; wherein blocking comprises blocking data directed to a victim at the edge for a first type of security threat and blocking data directed to the victim at the backbone for a second type of security threat, the first and second types of security threats being different; wherein the first type of security threat is a relatively low bandwidth aggregated security threat and the second type of security threat is a relatively high bandwidth security threat.