Realtime triggering framework

• US 10,536,476 B2
• Filed: 07/21/2016
• Issued: 01/14/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 07/21/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SAP SE
• Original Assignee: SAP SE
• Inventors: Pritzkau, Eugen, Nos, Kathrin, Rodeck, Marco, Chrosziel, Florian, Hassforther, Jona, Merkel, Rita, Menke, Thorsten, Kunz, Thomas, Seifert, Hartwig, Mehta, Harish, Peng, Wei-Guo, Luo, Lin, Zhang, Nan, Dinkova, Hristina
• Primary Examiner(s): Zarrineh, Shahriar
• Application Number:
  US15/216,201
• Publication Number:
  US 20180027010A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,272 Days
• Field of Search: 726 23
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/106 using time related information in packets, e.g. by adding timestamps
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/1408 by monitoring network traffic monitoring network traffic per se H04L43/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/1433 Vulnerability analysis
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]

Abstract

A computer-implemented method generates a trigger registration for a selected triggering type. The generated trigger registration is stored in a triggering persistency. A received event from an event persistency is analyzed and data associated with the analyzed event is compared with the triggering persistency. Based on the comparison and using a pattern execution framework, an enterprise threat detection (ETD) pattern is processed to perform actions responsive to the received event.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

generating a trigger registration for a selected triggering type;

storing the generated trigger registration in a triggering persistency;

analyzing a received event from an event persistency;

comparing data associated with the analyzed event with the triggering persistency; and

based on the comparison, processing, using a pattern execution framework, an enterprise threat detection (ETD) pattern data object to perform actions responsive to the received event, wherein the ETD pattern is translated into a structured query language (SQL) query, and wherein the ETD pattern contains paths connected over references and each path contains subsets representing conditions; and

upon detection of an alert based on processing of the ETD pattern, transmitting a pattern identification of the ETD pattern to a high-frequency computational daemon thread or a job which processes one or more other ETD patterns corresponding to the ETD pattern in parallel and by triggering separate processing threads to execute each other ETD pattern, wherein each separate processing thread completes processing of a particular other ETD pattern and ends with no return to the high-frequency computational daemon thread or the job.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the triggering type includes one of the group consisting of by event and by pattern.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the trigger registration is stored in a triggering persistency registration list.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 3, comprising determining that the data associated with the analyzed event matches registered content or one or more semantic value trigger registrations in the triggering persistency registration list.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, comprising:

instantiating a processing thread to process the ETD pattern; and

delegating the processing of the ETD pattern from the processing thread to the pattern execution framework.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, comprising determining that execution of the ETD pattern generates an additional event.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 6, comprising determining whether a triggering registration for the additional event exists in the triggering persistency.

8. A non-transitory, computer-readable medium storing one or more instructions executable by a computer system to perform operations comprising:

generating a trigger registration for a selected triggering type;

storing the generated trigger registration in a triggering persistency;

analyzing a received event from an event persistency;

comparing data associated with the analyzed event with the triggering persistency; and

based on the comparison, processing, using a pattern execution framework, an enterprise threat detection (ETD) pattern data object to perform actions responsive to the received event, wherein the ETD pattern is translated into a structured query language (SQL) query, and wherein the ETD pattern contains paths connected over references and each path contains subsets representing conditions; and

upon detection of an alert based on processing of the ETD pattern, transmitting a pattern identification of the ETD pattern to a high-frequency computational daemon thread or a job which processes one or more other ETD patterns corresponding to the ETD pattern in parallel and by triggering separate processing threads to execute each other ETD pattern, wherein each separate processing thread completes processing of a particular other ETD pattern and ends with no return to the high-frequency computational daemon thread or the job.

9. The non-transitory, computer-readable medium of claim 8, wherein the triggering type includes one of the group consisting of by event and by pattern.

10. The non-transitory, computer-readable medium of claim 8, wherein the trigger registration is stored in a triggering persistency registration list.

11. The non-transitory, computer-readable medium of claim 10, comprising one or more instructions to determine that the data associated with the analyzed event matches registered content or one or more semantic value trigger registrations in the triggering persistency registration list.

12. The non-transitory, computer-readable medium of claim 8, comprising one or more instructions to:

instantiate a processing thread to process the ETD pattern; and

delegate the processing of the ETD pattern from the processing thread to the pattern execution framework.

13. The non-transitory, computer-readable medium of claim 8, comprising one or more instructions to determine that execution of the ETD pattern generates an additional event.

14. The non-transitory, computer-readable medium of claim 13, comprising one or more instructions to determine whether a triggering registration for the additional event exists in the triggering persistency.

15. A computer-implemented system, comprising:

a hardware processor interoperably coupled with a computer memory and configured to perform operations comprising;

generating a trigger registration for a selected triggering type;

storing the generated trigger registration in a triggering persistency;

analyzing a received event from an event persistency;

comparing data associated with the analyzed event with the triggering persistency; and

based on the comparison, processing, using a pattern execution framework, an enterprise threat detection (ETD) pattern data object to perform actions responsive to the received event, wherein the ETD pattern is translated into a structured query language (SQL) query, and wherein the ETD pattern contains paths connected over references and each path contains subsets representing conditions; and

upon detection of an alert based on processing of the ETD pattern, transmitting a pattern identification of the ETD pattern to a high-frequency computational daemon thread or a lob which processes one or more other ETD patterns corresponding to the ETD pattern in parallel and by triggering separate processing threads to execute each other ETD pattern, wherein each separate processing thread completes processing of a particular other ETD pattern and ends with no return to the high-frequency computational daemon thread or the job.

16. The computer-implemented system of claim 15, wherein the triggering type includes one of the group consisting of by event and by pattern.

17. The computer-implemented system of claim 15, wherein the trigger registration is stored in a triggering persistency registration list.

18. The computer-implemented system of claim 17, configured to determine that the data associated with the analyzed event matches registered content or one or more semantic value trigger registrations in the triggering persistency registration list.

19. The computer-implemented system of claim 15, configured to:

instantiate a processing thread to process the ETD pattern; and

delegate the processing of the ETD pattern from the processing thread to the pattern execution framework.

20. The computer-implemented system of claim 15, configured to:

determine that execution of the ETD pattern generates an additional event; and

determine whether a triggering registration for the additional event exists in the triggering persistency.