DISPLAYING REAL-TIME SECURITY EVENTS

• US 20150324581A1
• Filed: 01/28/2013
• Published: 11/12/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/28/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Micro Focus LLC (Open Text Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Singla, Anurag, Brody, Adam
• Granted Patent: US 11,188,642 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/32 with visual or acoustical indication of the functioning of the machine
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/552 involving long-term monitoring or reporting
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/86 Event-based monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/034 Test or assess a computer or a system
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/22 comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols

Abstract

A system and method for displaying a number of real-time security events comprises a number of client devices and an administrator device communicatively coupled to the client devices. The administrator device may comprise a preferences module and an event rate adapter module communicatively coupled to the preferences module. The preferences module receives input describing how to display a number of security events on the screen of a graphical user interface the event rate adapter module displays a number of real-time scrolling security events for a relatively longer period of time than other security events.

Claims

1. A system for adapting a display of real-time security events, comprising:

a number of client devices; and

an administrator device communicatively coupled to the client devices, the administrator device comprising;

a preferences module; and

an event rate adapter module communicatively coupled to the preferences module;

in which the preferences module receives input describing how to display a number of security events on the screen of a graphical user interface; and

in which the event rate adapter module displays a number of real-time scrolling security events until a user of the administrator device acknowledges the events.

2. The system of claim 1, in which the user acknowledges the security events by clicking on the security events and taking steps to address the security events.

3. The system of claim 1, in which the event rate adapter module displays a number of real-time scrolling security events for a relatively longer period of time than other security events based on the criticality of the security event.

4. The system of claim 3, in which the criticality of the of the security event is based on a rating of the security event and in which the input describing how to display a number of security events includes input describing what rating of events are displayed the screen of a graphical user interface until the user of the administrator device acknowledges the security events.

5. The system of claim 1, in which the event rate adapter module displays a scrolling list of relatively more critical security events and a scrolling list of relatively less critical security events and in which the display time of each of the relatively more critical security events and relatively less critical security is different.

6. A method of displaying a number of real-time security events, comprising:

receiving preferences from a preference module of a computer network administrator device; and

scrolling security events associated with a number of client devices on the computer network across a graphical user interface leaving relatively more critical security events on the screen until a user of the administrator device acknowledges the relatively more critical security events.

7. The method of claim 6, in which the user acknowledges the security events by clicking on the security events and taking steps to address the security events.

8. The method of claim 6, in which receiving preferences from a preference module of a computer network administrator device further comprises receiving data defining the criticality of the number of security events.

9. The method of claim 8, in which the criticality of the of the security event is based on a rating of the security event and in which the preferences comprises input describing what rating of events are displayed the screen until the user of the administrator device acknowledges the security events.

10. The method of claim 8, in which the criticality of the number of security events determines the length of time that any of the number of security events remain viewable on the graphical user interface.

11. The method of claim 6, further comprising scrolling the list of relatively more critical security events while scrolling a list of relatively less critical security events.

12. A computer program product for displaying a number of real-time security events, the computer program product comprising:

a computer readable storage medium comprising computer usable program code embodied therewith, the computer usable program code comprising;

computer usable program code to, when executed by a processor, receive preferences from a preference module of a computer network administrator device; and

computer usable program code to, when executed by a processor,

scroll security events associated with a number of client devices on the computer network across a graphical user interface leaving relatively more critical security events on the screen for a relatively longer period of time.

13. The computer program product of claim 12, further comprising computer usable program code to, when executed by a processor, receive data defining the criticality of the number of security events.

14. The computer program product of claim 13, in which the criticality of the number of security events determines the length of time that any of the number of security events remain viewable on the graphical user interface.

15. The computer program product of claim 12, further comprising computer usable program code to, when executed by a processor, scroll the list of relatively more critical security events while scrolling list of relatively less critical security events.