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Methods, devices, systems, and computer program products for edge driven communications network security monitoring

  • US 8,302,189 B2
  • Filed: 11/30/2009
  • Issued: 10/30/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/30/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of providing security for a communications network comprising:

  • monitoring, using a programmed computer processor circuit, data at an edge of the communications network, that is outside a backbone of the communications network, the data being received at the edge from outside the backbone of the communications network;

    determining, at the edge, that the data being monitored at the edge comprises a security threat to the communications network;

    reporting the data determined at the edge to be the security threat to a central management system associated with the backbone; and

    blocking the data at the edge responsive to determining at the edge that the data is the security threat to the communications network;

    wherein blocking comprises blocking data directed to a victim at the edge for a relatively low bandwidth aggregated security threat and blocking data directed to the victim at the backbone for a relatively high bandwidth security threat.

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