Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Cyberanalysis workflow acceleration
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Application No.: US16584084Application Date: 2019-09-26
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Publication No.: US11574047B2Publication Date: 2023-02-07
- Inventor: Sean Moore , Jonathan R. Rogers , Jess Parnell , Zachary Ehnerd
- Applicant: Centripetal Networks, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US NH Portsmouth
- Assignee: Centripetal Networks, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Centripetal Networks, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US NH Portsmouth
- Agency: Banner & Witcott, Ltd.
- Main IPC: H04L29/06
- IPC: H04L29/06 ; G06F21/55 ; G06N20/00 ; H04L9/40

Abstract:
A cyber threat intelligence (CTI) gateway device may receive rules for filtering TCP/IP packet communications events that are configured to cause the CTI gateway device to identify communications corresponding to indicators, signatures, and behavioral patterns of network threats. The CTI gateway device may receive packets that compose endpoint-to-endpoint communication events and, for each event, may determine that the event corresponds to criteria specified by a filtering rule. The criteria may correspond to one or more of the network threat indicators, signatures, and behavioral patterns. The CTI gateway may create a log of the threat event and forward the threat event log to a task queue managed by a cyberanalysis workflow application. Human cyberanalysts use the cyberanalysis workflow application to service the task queue by removing the task at the front of the queue, investigating the threat event, and deciding whether the event is a reportable finding that should be reported to the proper authorities. In order to improve the efficiency of the workflow process, tasks in the queue are ordered by the likelihood, or probability, that cyberanalysts will determine the associated threat events to be reportable findings; thus, high-likelihood events are investigated first. Likelihoods are computed using human-designed algorithms and machine-learned algorithms that are applied to characteristics of the events. Low-likelihood events may be dropped from the work queue to further improve efficiency.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200019700A1 Cyberanalysis Workflow Acceleration Public/Granted day:2020-01-16
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