Patent ID: 8266278
Filing Date: 2012-09-11
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for displaying the state of a network using geographic information, comprising: a security event collecting unit embodied on a non-transitory computer readable medium and executed by a processor to collect security events from the outside; an IP address converting unit embodied on the non-transitory computer readable medium and executed by the processor to convert a source IP address and a destination IP address in characteristic data of the collected security events into corresponding geographic information on the basis of information stored in a geographic information database; and a network state display unit configured to display the flow of security events for each protocol between a source and a destination as an image including three-dimensional elements comprising a first globe shape and a second globe shape, on the basis of the characteristic data and the geographic information transmitted from the IP address converting unit, the first globe shape indicating an actual geographic position of the source corresponding to the source IP address and the second globe shape indicating an actual geographic position of the destination corresponding to the destination IP address, and further configured to display a plurality of protocol circles arranged around each of the first and second globes, each of the plurality of protocol circles corresponding to one of a plurality of network protocols.