Real-time network updates for malicious content

• US 20110016527A1
• Filed: 03/16/2010
• Published: 01/20/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/16/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Quest Software, Inc.
• Original Assignee: SonicWALL, Inc. (SonicWall Holdings Ltd.)
• Inventors: Bilogorskiy, Nick, Racham, Bhuvan, Eikenberry, Scott D., Yanovsky, Boris, Bhimaraju, Gayatri
• Granted Patent: US 8,522,347 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/23
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/566 Dynamic detection, i.e. detection performed at run-time, e.g. emulation, suspicious activities
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/04 Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/1408 by monitoring network traffic monitoring network traffic per se H04L43/00

Abstract

A global response network collects, analyzes, and distributes “cross-vector” threat-related information between security systems to allow for an intelligent, collaborative, and comprehensive real-time response.

Claims

1. A network data center and malicious content detection mechanism to implement cross-vector protection whereby various threats are grouped by vectors corresponding to a particular port which suspect traffic might breach a network perimeter.