INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM

• US 20170277887A1
• Filed: 11/14/2014
• Published: 09/28/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 11/14/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Inventors: IJIRO, Hideaki, SAKURAI, Shoji, KAWAUCHI, Kiyoto
• Application Number:
  US15/506,674
• Publication Number:
  US 20170277887A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/552 involving long-term monitoring or reporting
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/554 involving event detection and direct action
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/567 using dedicated hardware
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/034 Test or assess a computer or a system

Abstract

A candidate event derivation unit (101) derives, as a candidate event, an event predicted to occur in an information system (200) including a plurality of system components (300), the event being a candidate for a monitoring target. An attribute identification unit (102) derives, as a candidate system component, a system component (300) involved in occurrence of the candidate event from among the plurality of system components (300), and identifies an attribute of the candidate system component. A monitoring target decision unit (103) analyzes the attribute of the candidate system component identified by the attribute identification unit (102), and decides whether or not the candidate event is to be the monitoring target.

Claims

1. -14. (canceled)

15. An information processing apparatus comprising:

processing circuitry to;

derive, as a candidate event, an event predicted to occur in an information system including a plurality of system components, the event being a candidate for a monitoring target;

derive, as a candidate system component, a system component involved in occurrence of the candidate event from among the plurality of system components, and identify an attribute of the candidate system component; and

acquire an exclusion rule in which a condition for an event which is to be excluded from the monitoring target is defined using an attribute of the system component, and decide whether or not the candidate event is to be the monitoring target by comparing the attribute of the candidate system component identified by the processing circuitry with the attribute of the system component defined in the exclusion rule.

16. The information processing apparatus according to claim 15,

wherein the processing circuitry derives, as the candidate event, an event predicted to occur in the information system when the information system is attacked.

17. The information processing apparatus according to claim 16,

wherein the processing circuitry derives, as the candidate event, an event predicted to occur in the information system subsequent to the attack symptom event when an attack symptom event being a symptom of the attack on the information system occurs.

18. The information processing apparatus according to claim 15,

wherein, when the attribute of the candidate system component coincides with the attribute of the system component defined in the exclusion rule, the processing circuitry excludes the candidate event from the monitoring target.

19. The information processing apparatus according to claim 15,

wherein, when the attribute of the candidate system component does not coincide with the attribute of the system component defined in the exclusion rule, the processing circuitry sets the candidate event to be the monitoring target.

20. The information processing apparatus according to claim 18,

wherein, when the exclusion rule is invalidated after excluding the candidate event from the monitoring target, the processing circuitry sets the candidate event to be the monitoring target.

21. The information processing apparatus according to claim 18, further comprising

a rule editing tool that edits the exclusion rule.

22. An information processing apparatus comprising:

processing circuitry to derive, as a candidate event, an event predicted to occur in an information system when the information system is attacked, and derive a candidate progress state being a progress state of the attack on the information system when the candidate event occurs; and

a memory to store candidate event definition information in which contents of the candidate event are indicated and candidate progress state information in which the candidate progress state is indicated;

wherein the processing circuitry detects the progress state of the attack on the information system and

determines, when determination timing arrives, whether or not the candidate progress state indicated in the candidate progress state information coincides with a detected progress state which has been detected until the determination timing, and when the candidate progress state coincides with the detected progress state, deletes the candidate event definition information and the candidate progress state information from the memory.

23. The information processing apparatus according to claim 22,

wherein, when an attack symptom event being a symptom of the attack on the information system occurs, the processing circuitry derives, as the candidate event, the event predicted to occur in the information system subsequent to the attack symptom event.

24. The information processing apparatus according to claim 23,

wherein the processing circuitry derives, as the candidate event, an event predicted occur in the information system when the information system including a plurality of system components is attacked, and

derives, as a candidate system component, a system component involved in occurrence of the candidate event from among the plurality of system components,

the memory stores candidate system component information in which the candidate system component is indicated,

the processing circuitry detects the progress state of the attack on the information system by relating it to any system component of the plurality of system components, and the processing circuitry determines, when the determination timing arrives, whether or not the candidate progress state indicated in the candidate progress state information coincides with the detected progress state which has been detected until the detection timing, and whether or not the candidate system component indicated in the candidate system component information coincides with a detected system component has been detected until the determination timing, and when the candidate progress state coincides with the detected progress state and the candidate system component coincides with the detected system component, deletes the candidate event definition information, the candidate progress state information, and the candidate system component information from the memory.

25. An information processing method comprising:

deriving, as a candidate event, an event predicted to occur in an information system including a plurality of system components, the event being a candidate for a monitoring target;

deriving, as a candidate system component, a system component involved in occurrence of the candidate event from among the plurality of system components, and identifying an attribute of the candidate system component; and

acquiring an exclusion rule in which a condition for an event which is to be excluded from the monitoring target is defined using an attribute of the system component, and deciding whether or not the candidate event is to be the monitoring target by comparing the identified attribute of the candidate system component with the attribute of the system component defined in the exclusion rule.

26. An information processing method comprising:

deriving, as a candidate event, an event predicted to occur in an information system when the information system is attacked, and deriving a candidate progress state being a progress state of the attack on the information system when the candidate event occurs;

storing to a storage apparatus, candidate event definition information in which contents of the candidate event are indicated and candidate progress state information in which the candidate progress state is indicated;

detecting, the progress state of the attack on the information system; and

determining, when determination timing arrives, whether or not the candidate progress state indicated in the candidate progress state information coincides with a detected progress state which has been detected until the determination timing, and when the candidate progress state coincides with the detected progress state, deleting the candidate event definition information and the candidate progress state information from the storage apparatus.

27. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program to cause a computer to execute:

candidate event deriving processing to derive, as a candidate event, an event predicted to occur in an information system including a plurality of system components, the event being a candidate for a monitoring target;

attribute identification processing to derive, as a candidate system component, a system component involved in occurrence of the candidate event from among the plurality of system components, and identify an attribute of the candidate system component; and

monitoring target decision processing to acquire an exclusion rule in which a condition for an event which is to be excluded from the monitoring target is defined using an attribute of the system component, and decide whether or not the candidate event is to be the monitoring target by comparing the attribute of the candidate system component identified by the attribute identification processing with the attribute of the system component defined in the exclusion rule.

28. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program to cause a computer to execute:

candidate event deriving processing to derive, as a candidate event, an event predicted to occur in an information system when the information system is attacked, and derive a candidate progress state being a progress state of the attack on the information system when the candidate event occurs;

information storage processing to store to a storage apparatus candidate event definition information in which contents of the candidate event are indicated and candidate progress state information in which the candidate progress state is indicated;

progress state detection processing to detect the progress state of the attack on the information system; and

information management processing to determine, when determination timing arrives, whether or not the candidate progress state indicated in the candidate progress state information coincides with a detected progress state which has been detected until the determination timing by the progress state detection processing, and when the candidate progress state coincides with the detected progress state, delete the candidate event definition information and the candidate progress state information from the storage apparatus.