A communication monitoring and coping apparatus includes: a processor; a memory; an unauthorized communication detection unit that detects unauthorized communication in a network in which a plurality of devices are connected to communicate with each other and identifies a device involved in the detected unauthorized communication; a coping process determination unit that searches for another device that substitutes for the identified device and generates coping information, which is information of a process performed in place of the identified device, based on information on the network and information on each of processes performed by the plurality of devices; and a coping information transmission unit that transmits the generated coping information to an information processing apparatus that causes the other device to execute the process indicated by the coping information.