Patent Publication Number: US-10789366-B2

Title: Security information management system and security information management method

Description:
FIELD 
     The present invention relates to a security information management system and a security information management method. 
     BACKGROUND 
     Conventionally, in order to continue stable organization activities in an organization having information system assets, an administrator of the information system assets (hereinafter, referred to as “system administrator”) collects and comprehend security information highly relevant to the information system assets, which are of their belonging organization and are a target to be managed, and quickly deals with any serious threat that is found. 
     Such security information is newly made open to the public successively through information providing servers and the like on the Internet by security research institutes, security vendors, and the like. As the security information made open to the public on the Internet, for example, information related to a security defect of software or hardware forming an information system and to a countermeasure against the security defect, and the like have been known. 
     For example, as a technique for collecting and providing security information, with respect to vulnerability information of security information, for example, a technique for collecting vulnerability information made open to the public by an information providing server on the Internet has been known (see Patent Literature 1). In this technique, by executing collection based on relations such as reference relations of plural sets of vulnerability information that have been collected and determination of relevance between the collected vulnerability information and an information system asset managed by a system administrator, vulnerability information to be preferentially browsed by the system administrator is collected and provided. 
     CITATION LIST 
     Patent Literature 
     Patent Literature 1: Japanese Patent No. 4935399 
     SUMMARY 
     Technical Problem 
     However, in the above described technique for collecting and providing security information, relevance of security information other than the vulnerability information is unable to be determined and provided to the system administrator. Therefore, there has been a problem that the system administrator may not be able to easily collect security information highly relevant to referrer security information used as a referrer. 
     For example, if collection is performed, with certain security information being referrer security information, by using a search engine or the like provided on the Internet through use of a keyword included in the referrer security information as a clue, unless a system administrator has knowledge related to security, an appropriate keyword is unable to be selected and highly relevant security information is unable to be collected. 
     Further, when the collection is performed by using the search engine or the like provided on the Internet through the use of the keyword included in the referrer security information as the clue, even if the system administrator has the knowledge related to security, depending on the keyword input in the search engine, a search result with much security information having low relevance and much general information other than security information mixed therein may be provided, and much labor may be required in distinguishing highly relevant security information therefrom. 
     Therefore, an object of this invention is to easily collect security information highly relevant to referrer security information. 
     Solution to Problem 
     A security information management system includes: a collecting unit that collects security information that is information related to security; a calculating unit that extracts, by referring to a security dictionary storing therein a keyword related to the security for each attribute, a keyword from referrer security information that becomes a source to be compared with the security information for relevance thereto, and calculates, by comparing the extracted keyword with a keyword included in the security information collected by the collecting unit, relevance between the referrer security information and the security information; and an output unit that outputs security information having higher relevance calculated by the calculating unit more preferentially. 
     A security information management method executed by a security information management device, the security information management method includes: a collecting step of collecting security information that is information related to security; a calculating step of extracting, by referring to a security dictionary storing therein a keyword related to the security for each attribute, a keyword from referrer security information that becomes a source to be compared with the security information for relevance thereto, and calculating, by comparing the extracted keyword with a keyword included in the security information collected by the collecting step, relevance between the referrer security information and the security information; and an output step of outputting security information having higher relevance calculated by the calculating step more preferentially. 
     Advantageous Effects of Invention 
     A security information management system and a security information management method disclosed in this application enable easy collection of security information highly relevant to referrer security information. 
    
    
     
       BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS 
         FIG. 1  is a diagram illustrating an example of a configuration of a security information management system according to a first embodiment. 
         FIG. 2  is a diagram illustrating an example of information extracted by a security dictionary of a security dictionary storage unit according to the first embodiment. 
         FIG. 3  is a diagram illustrating an example of information stored by a security information accumulating unit according to the first embodiment. 
         FIG. 4  is a diagram illustrating an example of a vulnerability score calculation process by a security information relevance calculating unit. 
         FIG. 5  is a flow chart illustrating a flow of a security information providing process in the security information management device according to the first embodiment. 
         FIG. 6  is a diagram illustrating a computer that executes a security information management program. 
     
    
    
     DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENT 
     Hereinafter, with reference to the appended drawings, an embodiment of a security information management system and a security information management method according to the invention will be described in detail. The invention is not limited by this embodiment. 
     First Embodiment 
     In the following embodiment, flows of processes by a security information management system and a security information management method according to a first embodiment will be described in sequence, and lastly, effects by the first embodiment will be described. 
     [Configuration of System] 
     First of all, an example of a configuration of a security information management system  100 , to which a security information management device according to the first embodiment is applied, will be described.  FIG. 1  is a diagram illustrating the example of the configuration of the security information management system according to the first embodiment. As illustrated in  FIG. 1 , the security information management system  100 , to which a security information management device  10  according to the first embodiment is applied, has the security information management device  10 , a security information providing server  20 , and a client terminal  30 . Further, in the security information management system  100 , the security information management device  10  and the security information providing server  20  are connected to each other via the Internet  40 . Furthermore, the security information management device  10  is connected to the client terminal  30  via an input and output interface unit  15 . 
     The security information providing server  20  is a server that makes security information open to the public. For example, the security information providing server  20  makes security information open to the public, the security information being text information (hereinafter, referred to as “vulnerability information”) related to a security defect (which may be expressed as, for example, “vulnerability”, “a security hole”, or the like) of software or hardware forming an information system and to a countermeasure against the security defect. 
     Further, for example, the security information providing server  20  makes security information open to the public, the security information being text information related to a technique (which may be expressed as “Proof of Concept (PoC)”, “exploit”, or the like) for abusing the above mentioned security defect and to a countermeasure against the technique. 
     Furthermore, for example, the security information providing server  20  makes security information open to the public, the security information being text information related to a malicious program (which may be expressed as “(computer) virus”, “malware”, or the like), which has been generated by use of the above mentioned abusing technique and aims to damage an information system of a third party and to a countermeasure against the malicious program. 
     Moreover, the security information providing server  20  makes security information open to the public, the security information being text information related to news or a case of an attack (which may be expressed as “targeted attack”, “advanced persistent threat (APT) attack”, “cyber attack”, or the like) on an information system of another organization, the attack having been executed by use of the above mentioned malicious program. 
     The client terminal  30  is an information processing device, such as a PC, which is used by a system administrator in utilizing the security information management system  100  and installed with a standard Web browser. Further, the client terminal  30  receives, from the security information management device  10 , security information highly relevant to referrer security information, and displays the security information. 
     [Configuration of Security Information Management Device] 
     Next, a configuration of the security information management device  10  illustrated in  FIG. 1  will be described. As illustrated in  FIG. 1 , the security information management device  10  has a security information collecting unit  11 , a security information accumulating unit  12 , a security dictionary storage unit  13 , a security dictionary management unit  14 , the input and output interface unit  15 , and a security information relevance calculating unit  16 . 
     The security information collecting unit  11  collects security information, which is information related to security. Specifically, the security information collecting unit  11  regularly accesses the security information providing server  20  at predetermined time intervals to obtain the security information. The security information is obtained as general document files of HTML, PDF, and the like. The security information collecting unit  11  then processes the obtained files into a predetermined format, adds additional information thereto, and stores them into the security information accumulating unit  12 . When the security information collecting unit  11  processes the obtained files into the predetermined format, the security information collecting unit  11  refers to the security dictionary storage unit  13 . 
     For example, the security information collecting unit  11  extracts a title and a body of a document file, and extracts, by referring to a security dictionary stored in the security dictionary storage unit  13 , keywords included in the title and body. The security information collecting unit  11  is set with setup information, which is “URL list” of the security information providing server  20  to be a target of collection, “cut-out position information” for extracting “title” and “body” required by the system administrator from security information provided in a format different according to the security information providing server  20 , and “information indicating time and interval” indicating timing to execute collection with respect to the security information providing server  20 . The security information collecting unit  11  operates based on these sets of setup information. The “cut-out position information” is information defined for each URL in the URL list. 
     For example, the security information collecting unit  11  obtains a document file, such as an HTML file or a PDF file, in which security information is described, from the security information providing server  20  specified in a URL list, at a time specified in the setup information. The security information collecting unit  11  then extracts, based on the “cut-out position information”, “title” and “body” of the security information from the obtained file. 
     Subsequently, the security information collecting unit  11  extracts keywords included in the extracted “title” and “body” by comparison with the security dictionary, and stores the URL of the information providing server, the time at which the file was collected, the extracted “title” and “body”, and all of the extracted keywords, into the security information accumulating unit  12  (which will be described in detail later by use of  FIG. 2 ). Thereafter, the security information collecting unit  11  repeats the above described process until the process for all of URLs in the URL list is finished. 
     The security information accumulating unit  12  stores therein the security information and the additional information received from the security information collecting unit  11 . Further, the security information accumulating unit  12  transmits security information requested by the security information relevance calculating unit  16  to the security information relevance calculating unit  16 . Further, in the security information accumulating unit  12 , as an attribute of the security information, a keyword related to security is registered respectively for a classification of vulnerability, a classification of a product or service, a classification of a product provider or service provider, a classification of a country or organization, or a classification of a cyber attack. 
     By use of an example in  FIG. 3 , an example of information stored by the security information accumulating unit  12  will be described.  FIG. 3  is a diagram illustrating the example of information stored by the security information accumulating unit according to the first embodiment. As illustrated in  FIG. 3 , the security information accumulating unit  12  stores therein for each set of security information, the keywords extracted by the security information collecting unit  11 , respectively for categories, “vulnerability”, “product/service”, “product/service provider”, “country/organization name”, and “cyber attack”. 
     The security dictionary storage unit  13  stores therein a collection of keywords related to a security field to be referred to when relevance of security information is determined. The security dictionary storage unit  13  stores therein the security dictionary storing therein keywords related to security for each attribute, and for example, stores therein a vulnerability dictionary, a product/service dictionary, a product/service provider dictionary, a country/organization name dictionary, and a cyber attack dictionary, as collections of keywords representing characteristics of security information. 
     The security dictionary storage unit  13  stores therein: as the vulnerability dictionary (including corresponding synonyms), for example, buffer overflow, cross site scripting, and the like; as the product/service dictionary (including corresponding synonyms), for example, Windows (registered trademark) 7, Windows Server 2012, Twitter (registered trademark), and the like; as the product/service provider dictionary (including corresponding synonyms), for example, Microsoft (registered trademark), Google (registered trademark), and the like; as the country/organization name dictionary (including corresponding synonyms), for example, China, Korea, the House of Representatives, company names, and the like; and as the cyber attack dictionary (including corresponding synonyms), for example, cyber attack, targeted attack, targeted mail, information leakage, falsification, and the like. 
     Further, an example of generation of each dictionary collection will be described. In the vulnerability dictionary, keywords published on domestic and foreign sites explaining with respect to vulnerability are collected by a dedicated crawler or the like and registered. Further, in the product/service provider dictionary, names of product/service providers registered on domestic and foreign sites providing vulnerability information are collected by a dedicated crawler or the like and registered, as the keywords. Furthermore, in the product/service dictionary, names and versions of products/services registered on product introduction sites managed by product/service providers are collected by a dedicated crawler or the like and registered, as the keywords. Moreover, in the country/organization name dictionary, lists of domestic and foreign government offices, listed companies, and the like, are collected by a dedicated crawler or the like and registered. Further, in the cyber attack dictionary, keywords published on domestic and foreign sites explaining various tricks and methods of cyber attacks are collected by a dedicated crawler or the like and registered. In addition, the system administrator may manually perform registration with the security dictionary management unit  14 . 
     By use of  FIG. 2 , an example of information extracted by the security dictionary of the security dictionary storage unit  13  will be described.  FIG. 2  is a diagram illustrating an example of the information extracted by the security dictionary of the security dictionary storage unit according to the first embodiment. As exemplified in  FIG. 2 , the security information accumulating unit  12  stores therein, as security information, “URL of file of security information obtained from information providing server (security information providing server  20 )”, “time at which file of security information was collected from information providing server”, “title”, “body”, and “keyword”. The “title”, “body”, and “keyword” are information extracted from a file of security information, by the security dictionary stored in the security dictionary storage unit  13  being referred to. Further, all of the extracted keywords are stored based on the classification of each security dictionary. If no keyword is extracted, storage is executed with “content” corresponding to keyword being empty. 
     The security dictionary management unit  14  executes addition or deletion of a keyword related to the security field included in the dictionary. For example, the security dictionary management unit  14  receives an operation instruction of the system administrator and adds or deletes a keyword related to the security field. 
     The input and output interface unit  15  receives a request from the client terminal  30 , and transmits a result of determination of relevance to the client terminal  30 , as a response to the request. Specifically, the input and output interface unit  15  receives, from the client terminal  30  of the system administrator, referrer security information, a threshold of vulnerability score, a threshold of product/service score, a threshold of product/service provider score, a threshold of country/organization name score, and a threshold of cyber attack score, and transmits them to the security information relevance calculating unit  16 . 
     The vulnerability score is a numerical value representing relevance when the referrer security information and each set of security information accumulated in the security information accumulating unit  12  are compared with each other by use of “vulnerability dictionary”. The product/service score is a numerical value representing relevance when the referrer security information and each set of security information accumulated in the security information accumulating unit  12  are compared with each other by use of “product/service dictionary”. The product/service provider score is a numerical value representing relevance when the referrer security information and each set of security information accumulated in the security information accumulating unit  12  are compared with each other by use of “product/service provider dictionary”. The country/organization name score is a numerical value representing relevance when the referrer security information and each set of security information accumulated in the security information accumulating unit  12  are compared with each other by use of “country/organization name dictionary”. The cyber attack score is a numerical value representing relevance when the referrer security information and each set of security information accumulated in the security information accumulating unit  12  are compared with each other by use of “cyber attack dictionary”. 
     Further, the threshold of vulnerability score, the threshold of product/service score, the threshold of product/service provider score, the threshold of country/organization name score, and the threshold of cyber attack score are index values for determining relevance between the referrer security information and each set of security information accumulated in the security information accumulating unit  12  based on the above described five types of scores. Of the security information that has been accumulated in the security information accumulating unit  12 , security information having a score exceeding the threshold is determined as “having relevance to referrer security information”. Further, the thresholds are individually set by the system administrator respectively for the above described five types of scores. For example, the system administrator transmits each of the thresholds to the security information relevance calculating unit  16  through the input and output interface unit  15  from the client terminal  30 . 
     For input of the referrer security information, a function for displaying a text box, in which arbitrary text is able to be input, and making the system administrator execute the input may be installed. For the input of the referrer security information, a button for executing operation of transmitting the security information being displayed to the security information relevance calculating unit  16  by one click may be displayed on a browser screen of the client terminal  30 . For the input of each threshold, a function of causing the system administrator to make a selection by displaying values obtainable by a score calculation formula as selections may be installed. 
     Further, for the input of each threshold, a function for reducing the burden of operation of inputting the threshold every time for the system administrator, by setting a standard value in advance, and using that standard value if there is no input of the threshold by the system administrator may be installed. 
     Further, the input and output interface unit  15  receives total values of the scores from the security information relevance calculating unit  16 , and displays security information with all of the five types of scores representing the relevance to the referrer security information exceeding the transmitted thresholds, on the client terminal  30  in descending order of the total values. A function may be installed, which is for further narrowing down the security information to be displayed upon the display, by a filter using “URL of file of security information obtained from information providing server”, “time at which file of security information was collected from information providing server”, and “keywords included in “title” and “body” of security information”, which the security information has. A function may be installed, which is for exporting to outside, after the security information highly relevant to the referrer security information has been displayed, a result of the display in a format of a document file, such as a text file or a PDF file. 
     The security information relevance calculating unit  16  extracts a keyword from the referrer security information that becomes a source to be compared with security information for relevance thereto, by referring to the security dictionary storage unit  13  storing therein keywords related to security for each attribute, and calculates relevance between the referrer security information and the security information by comparing the extracted keyword with the keywords included in the security information collected by the security information collecting unit  11 . 
     Based on a request from the input and output interface unit  15 , the security information relevance calculating unit  16  obtains security information stored in the security information accumulating unit  12  and executes relevance determination. The security information relevance calculating unit  16  then transmits a result of the relevance determination to the client terminal  30  via the input and output interface unit  15 . The higher the relevance of the security information calculated by the security information relevance calculating unit  16  is, the more preferentially it is output by the input and output interface unit  15  to the client terminal  30 . 
     For example, the security information relevance calculating unit  16  receives, as setup information, from the client terminal  30  via the input and output interface unit  15 , the referrer security information that becomes a source to be compared with the security information of the security information accumulating unit  12  for the relevance thereto, the threshold of vulnerability score, the threshold of product/service score, the threshold of product/service provider score, the threshold of country/organization name score, and the threshold of cyber attack score. 
     Hereinafter, a flow of a specific process by the security information relevance calculating unit  16  will be described. The security information relevance calculating unit  16  extracts a keyword from the referrer security information, by referring to the security dictionary, respectively for the classification of vulnerability, the classification of product or service, the classification of product provider or service provider, the classification of country or organization, or the classification of cyber attack. 
     The security information relevance calculating unit  16  then compares the keyword extracted from the referrer security information with the vulnerability keyword of each set of security information accumulated in the security information accumulating unit  12  to calculate a vulnerability score. Specifically, the security information relevance calculating unit  16  extracts a keyword from the referrer security information, by referring to the security dictionary, respectively for the classification of vulnerability, the classification of product or service, the classification of product provider or service provider, the classification of country or organization, or the classification of cyber attack, and calculates relevance between the referrer security information and the security information by comparing the keywords extracted from the referrer security information respectively with the keywords included in the security information collected by the collecting unit. 
     By use of  FIG. 4 , an example of a vulnerability score calculation process by the security information relevance calculating unit  16  will be described.  FIG. 4  is a diagram illustrating the example of the vulnerability score calculation process by the security information relevance calculating unit. As illustrated in  FIG. 4 , first, the security information relevance calculating unit  16  receives, via the input and output interface unit  15 , referrer security information including text and a body, from the client terminal  30 . 
     The security information relevance calculating unit  16  then extracts, for example, “buffer overflow”, as a keyword included in the vulnerability dictionary, from the referrer security information. The security information relevance calculating unit  16  then compares the keyword, “buffer overflow”, extracted from the referrer security information, with the vulnerability keywords of security information A and B accumulated in the security information accumulating unit  12 , and calculates vulnerability scores. 
     In the example in  FIG. 4 , since the vulnerability keyword of the security information A is “buffer overflow” and matches the keyword extracted from the referrer security information, a vulnerability score, “a”, of the security information A is calculated. Further, since the vulnerability keyword of the security information B is “cross site scripting” and does not match the keyword extracted from the referrer security information, a vulnerability score, “b”, of the security information B is calculated. The vulnerability score, “a”, of the security information A is a score higher than that of the vulnerability score, “b”, of the security information B. For example, based on the number of matching keywords, a score may be calculated. For example, the vulnerability score of the security information A maybe “1” and the vulnerability score of the security information B may be “0”. 
     Further, a score may be calculated by use of a commercial/free machine learning library, and by finding a feature vector of each, similarity between feature vectors may be found as a numerical value. By use of this method, determination of similarity between sets of security information having similar keywords, such that the keywords do not completely match each other, becomes possible. 
     Subsequently, the security information relevance calculating unit  16  similarly calculates a product/service score with respect to “product/service dictionary”. The security information relevance calculating unit  16  then similarly calculates a product/service provider score with respect to “product/service provider dictionary”. 
     Thereafter, the security information relevance calculating unit  16  similarly calculates a country/organization name score with respect to “country/organization name dictionary”. The security information relevance calculating unit  16  then similarly calculates a cyber attack score with respect to “cyber attack dictionary”. Weighting may be set for each score. 
     The security information relevance calculating unit  16  then sums up the scores. The security information relevance calculating unit  16  then sorts the security information of the security information accumulating unit  12  in descending order of total values of the scores. However, upon the sorting, any security information having a score less than at least one of the above described five types of thresholds is removed from a target to be sorted. 
     The security information relevance calculating unit  16  then transmits the security information in the sorted order to the input and output interface unit  15 . In order to improve the processing speed, a systematic upper limit maybe set for the number of sets of security information to be transmitted then. 
     [Process by Security Information Management Device] 
     Next, by use of  FIG. 5 , a process by the security information management device  10  according to the first embodiment will be described.  FIG. 5  is a flow chart illustrating a flow of a security information providing process in the security information management device according to the first embodiment. 
     First, by use of  FIG. 5 , the flow of the security information providing process in the security information management device according to the first embodiment will be described. As illustrated in  FIG. 5 , when referrer security information is received from the client terminal  30  via the input and output interface unit  15  (Step S 101 ), the security information relevance calculating unit  16  of the security information management device  10  extracts a keyword included in the security dictionary from the referrer security information (Step S 102 ). 
     The security information relevance calculating unit  16  then compares the keyword extracted from the referrer security information with a vulnerability keyword of each set of security information accumulated in the security information accumulating unit  12  and calculates a vulnerability score (Step S 103 ). 
     The security information relevance calculating unit  16  calculates a product/service score with respect to “product/service dictionary”, similarly to Step S 103  (Step S 104 ). The security information relevance calculating unit  16  then calculates a product/service provider score with respect to “product/service provider dictionary”, similarly to Step S 103  (Step S 105 ). 
     Thereafter, the security information relevance calculating unit  16  calculates a country/organization name score with respect to “country/organization dictionary”, similarly to Step S 103  (Step S 106 ). The security information relevance calculating unit  16  then calculates a cyber attack score with respect to “cyber attack dictionary”, similarly to Step S 103  (Step S 107 ). 
     The security information relevance calculating unit  16  then sums up the respective scores (Step S 108 ). The security information relevance calculating unit  16  then sorts the security information of the security information accumulating unit  12  in descending order of total values of the scores (Step S 109 ). However, upon the sorting, any security information having a score less than at least one of the above described five types of thresholds is removed from a target to be sorted. 
     The security information relevance calculating unit  16  then transmits the security information to the input and output interface unit  15  in the sorted order (Step S 110 ). 
     Effects by First Embodiment 
     As described above, in the security information management device  10  according to the first embodiment, security information, which is information related to security, is collected. The security information management device  10  then extracts a keyword from referrer security information that becomes a source to be compared with security information for relevance thereto, by referring to a security dictionary storing therein a keyword related to security for each attribute, and calculates relevance between the referrer security information and the security information, by comparing the extracted keyword with keywords included in the collected security information. The higher the calculated relevance of the security information is, the more preferentially it is output by the security information management device  10 . Thereby, security information highly relevant to the referrer security information is able to be output easily. 
     Further, in the security information management device  10 , file information including security information is collected at predetermined time intervals from the security information providing server  20 , a title and a body of the file information are extracted, and a keyword included in the title and body is extracted. The security information management device  10  calculates relevance by comparing the keyword included in the extracted title and body with the keyword extracted from the referrer security information. Therefore, relevance is able to be appropriately calculated by comparison between the keyword included in the title and body of the security information and the keyword extracted from the referrer security information. 
     Further, in the security information management device  10 , whether or not the keyword extracted from the referrer security information matches a keyword included in the collected security information is determined, and if they match, relevance between them is calculated to be higher than in a case where they do not match. Therefore, the relevance is able to be calculated easily. 
     Further, in the security information management device  10 , security information, for which the relevance has been calculated, is sorted in descending order of relevance and the security information is output in the sorted order. Therefore, security information highly relevant to the referrer security information is able to be output comprehensibly. 
     Further, in the security information management device  10 , as an attribute of security information, a keyword related to security is registered in a security dictionary respectively for a classification of vulnerability, a classification of product or service, a classification of product provider or service provider, a classification of country or organization, or a classification of cyber attack. The security information management device  10  extracts a keyword from the referrer security information, by referring to the security dictionary, respectively for the classification of vulnerability, the classification of product or service, the classification of product provider or service provider, the classification of country or organization, or the classification of cyber attack. Therefore, the keywords are able to be extracted appropriately. 
     Further, in the security information management device  10 , with reference to the security dictionary, a keyword is extracted from the referrer security information respectively for the classification of vulnerability, the classification of product or service, the classification of product provider or service provider, the classification of country or organization, or the classification of cyber attack, and relevance between the referrer security information and the security information is calculated by comparison between the keywords extracted from the referrer security information and the keywords included in the security information. Therefore, the relevance is able to be calculated easily. 
     [System Configuration and the Like] 
     Further, each component of the respective devices is functionally and conceptionally illustrated, and is not necessarily physically configured as illustrated in the drawings. That is, specific modes of distribution and integration of the respective devices are not limited to those illustrated in the drawings, and depending on various loads and use situations, all or some of the devices may be configured to be functionally or physically distributed or integrated in arbitrary units. For example, the security information collecting unit  11  and the security information relevance calculating unit  16  may be integrated with each other. Further, all or any part of the processing functions executed by the respective devices may be realized by a CPU and a program analyzed and executed by the CPU, or may be implemented as hardware by wired logic. 
     Further, of the respective processes described in the embodiment, all or a part of the processes described as being executed automatically may be executed manually, or all or a part of the processes described as being executed manually may be executed automatically by a known method. 
     In addition, the procedural sequences, control sequences, specific names, and information including various data and parameters described above and illustrated in the drawings may be arbitrarily modified unless otherwise particularly stated. 
     [Program] 
     Further, a program, which describes, in a language executable by a computer, the process executed by the security information management device  10  described in the above embodiment, may be generated. Further, a security information management program, which describes the process executed by the security information management device  10  according to the first embodiment in a language executable by a computer, may be generated. In this case, by the computer executing the security information management program, effects that are the same as those of the above embodiment are able to be obtained. Further, by recording that security information management program in a computer readable recording medium and causing the computer to load and execute the security information management program recorded in this recording medium, a process that is the same as that of the first embodiment may be realized. Hereinafter, an example of a computer that executes the security information management program realizing functions that are the same as those of the security information management device  10  illustrated in  FIG. 1  will be described. 
       FIG. 6  is a diagram illustrating a computer  1000  that executes the security information management program. As exemplified in  FIG. 6 , the computer  1000  has, for example, a memory  1010 , a CPU  1020 , a hard disk drive interface  1030 , a disk drive interface  1040 , a serial port interface  1050 , a video adapter  1060 , and a network interface  1070 , and these respective units are connected to one another by a bus  1080 . 
     The memory  1010  includes, as exemplified in  FIG. 6 , a read only memory (ROM)  1011 , and a RAM  1012 . The ROM  1011  stores therein a boot program, such as a basic input output system (BIOS), for example. The hard disk drive interface  1030  is, as exemplified in  FIG. 6 , connected to a hard disk drive  1031 . The disk drive interface  1040  is, as exemplified in  FIG. 6 , connected to a disk drive  1041 . An attachable and detachable storage medium, such as a magnetic disk or an optical disk, for example, is inserted into the disk drive  1041 . The serial port interface  1050  is, as exemplified in  FIG. 6 , connected to, for example, a mouse  1051  and a keyboard  1052 . The video adapter  1060  is, as exemplified in  FIG. 6 , connected to, for example, a display  1061 . 
     As exemplified in  FIG. 6 , the hard disk drive  1031  stores therein, for example, an OS  1091 , an application program  1092 , a program module  1093 , and program data  1094 . That is, the above described security information management program is stored, as a program module, in which commands executed by the computer  1000  are described, in the hard disk drive  1031 , for example. 
     Further, the various data described in the above embodiment are stored, as program data, in, for example, the memory  1010 , or the hard disk drive  1031 . The CPU  1020  reads, as necessary, the program module  1093  and program data  1094  stored in the memory  1010  or hard disk drive  1031  out to the RAM  1012 , and executes various procedures. 
     The program module  1093  and the program data  1094  related to the security information management program are not necessarily stored in the hard disk drive  1031 , and may be stored in, for example, an attachable and detachable recording medium and read out by the CPU  1020  via the disk drive or the like. Or, the program module  1093  or program data  1094  related to the security information management program may be stored in another computer connected via a network (local area network (LAN), wide area network (WAN), or the like) and read out by the CPU  1020  via the network interface  1070 . 
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               10  SECURITY INFORMATION MANAGEMENT DEVICE 
               11  SECURITY INFORMATION COLLECTING UNIT 
               12  SECURITY INFORMATION ACCUMULATING UNIT 
               13  SECURITY DICTIONARY STORAGE UNIT 
               14  SECURITY DICTIONARY MANAGEMENT UNIT 
               15  INPUT AND OUTPUT INTERFACE UNIT 
               16  SECURITY INFORMATION RELEVANCE CALCULATING UNIT 
               20  SECURITY INFORMATION PROVIDING SERVER 
               30  CLIENT TERMINAL 
               40  THE INTERNET 
               100  SECURITY INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM