Patent ID: 7681132

Claim:
A method for graphically representing network intrusions, the method comprising the steps of: a computer identifying intrusions sent from a source Internet Protocol (IP) address to a destination IP address and determining a color-code based on a number of the intrusions sent from the source IP address to the destination IP address; and the computer displaying on a monitor concurrently: a source icon representing the source IP address, the source IP address in association with the source icon, a destination icon representing the destination IP address, the destination IP address in association with the destination icon, a first arrow pointing from the source icon to the destination icon representing intrusions sent from the source IP address to the destination IP address, the first arrow being color-coded based on the number of intrusions sent from the source IP address to the destination IP address, and wherein the computer also identifies a response to the source IP address from the destination IP address to the intrusion sent from the source IP address, and displays concurrently on the monitor an arrow from the destination icon pointing to the source icon representing the response to the source IP address from the destination IP address to the intrusion sent from the source IP address.