Patent ID: 8065725

Claim:
A node infrastructure implemented in a resident memory of at least one computing device on top of an existing computer network comprising: a) a plurality of nodes arranged in a collective configured in a ring topology wherein there are at least two independent collectives in a zone of the computer network, each node comprising a host and a security agent capable of being executed on the host configured to identify data about an attack on the node; b) a plurality of super nodes arranged in a first super collective having authority of the zone of the computer network and configured in a ring topology having the at least two independent collectives in the zone associated with the first super collective each super node comprising a host and software capable of analyzing data received from a node in an associated collective about an attack on the node and sharing the data with other super nodes in the super collective; c) wherein each collective directly delivers data to an associated super node in the associated super collective; and d) wherein each node can only share data between nodes in its collective and its associated super node in the associated super collective.