Patent ID: 8490173

Claim:
A method for controlling an apparatus for transferring data from a plurality of first devices to a second device via a network, said data being transferred by using a packet, the method comprising: obtaining a communication log recording packets received from at least one of a server, firewall, a proxy and a client; identifying address ranges including a starting address and an ending address; extracting HyperText Transfer Protocol messages from the packets stored in a memory of the apparatus based on information with regard to address ranges; extracting uniform resource locator information and a User-Agent from each of the HyperText Transfer Protocol messages, the uniform resource locator information indicating destination information of the HyperText Transfer Protocol messages, the User-Agent indicating a type of software used by each of the first devices; counting a number of User-Agents, extracted from the HyperText Transfer Protocol messages, for each uniform resource locator information extracted from the HyperText Transfer Protocol messages stored in the memory of the apparatus; and for each uniform resource locator information, determining, by using the processor, a HyperText Transfer Protocol message is unauthorized communication when the number of the User-Agents for the uniform resource locator information is at least a predetermined number.