Patent ID: 8782780

Claim:
A method of organizing security data, comprising: hierarchically relating a triggering security event at a first level of hierarchy with one or more additional security events at a second level of the hierarchy that is lower than the first level of the hierarchy based on a possible relationship between the triggering security event and the one or more additional security events in a computer database environment maintained in a computer readable storage medium and associated with a data processing system; receiving, via the data processing system, a request from a user specifying the triggering security event at the computer database environment; identifying, via the data processing system, a search region based on a location associated with the specified triggering security event and a search time period based on a date and time of the specified triggering security event, wherein the search time period and a size of the search region are customized by the user; and providing, from the computer database environment, the one or more additional security events possibly associated with the specified triggering security event based on the identified search region and search time period responsive to the request, wherein the providing the one or more additional security events is based on a group of the user and role or title of the user.