277 results about "Network security management" patented technology

A policy-based network security management system is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system comprises a security management controller comprising one or more processors; a computer-readable medium carrying one or more sequences of instructions for policy-based network security management, wherein execution of the one or more sequences of instructions by the one or more processors causes the one or more processors to perform the steps of receiving a set of data regarding a user of a computer network; automatically deciding on a course of action based on the set of data, wherein the course of action may be adverse to the user although the set of data is insufficient to establish whether the user is performing a malicious action; and sending signals to one or more network elements in the computer network to implement the decision.

A method and system for cyber security management of Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems is provided to enhance situational awareness and cyber security management for industrial control systems. A centralized System Security Manager (SSM) is integrated into a SCADA to collect security related data for the industrial control system and an integrated command and control user interface displays security related data, a system security level, and interfaces with a user to allows for changing of system security settings for the industrial control system based on the security related data collected and manages changes in operational state of the SCADA based on the security level to restrict use of system interfaces and system accesses.

An improved computer network security system and a personal identifier device used for controlling network with real time authentication of both a person's identity and presence at a computer workstation is provided. A new user is registered to a portable personal digital identifier device and, within the portable personal digital identifier device, an input biometric of the user is received and a master template is derived therefrom and securely maintained in storage. A private key and public key encryption system is utilized to authenticate a user registered to the portable personal digital identifier device. The personal digital identifier device verifies the origin of a digitally signed challenge message from the network security manager component. A digitally and biometrically signed challenge response message is produced and transmitted by the personal digital identifier device in response to the verified challenge message.

The invention provides a network security situation evaluation method, which comprises the steps as follows: raw data are preprocessed, and the weight of each asset in a subnet and the weight of each subnet in the whole network are calculated; each asset is subject to external threat situation evaluation; each asset is subject to internal threat situation evaluation; by adopting a weight analysis method, each subnet is subject to external threat situation evaluation and internal threat situation evaluation; the network is subject to external threat situation evaluation and internal threat situation evaluation; firewall log information, intrusion information and vulnerability information are correlated in a crossed manner, so as to eliminate ineffective alarms; the security situation of each asset is comprehensively evaluated; the security situation of each subnet is comprehensively evaluated; and by adopting the weight analysis method, the security situation of the network is comprehensively evaluated. By adopting the network security situation evaluation method, the problem of single data source in the prior art is solved, a network security situation evaluation result is enabled to be more comprehensive and more accurate; the overall condition of the network security is truly reflected; and the evaluation result is intuitive and practical and can be directly used for guiding the command and the decision of network security management.

The invention provides an electric power system interior APT attack detection and pre-warning system based on network architecture. The system comprises a user terminal monitoring sub-system, a server monitoring sub-system and a cloud platform management sub-system. According to the characteristic that APT attacks are all pervasive, the APT attack detection and pre-warning system containing a user terminal and a system server is designed. The detection and pre-warning system has the common network security management function, meanwhile conducts analysis of exceptions on logs and events, and excavates and repairs loopholes of the system, after a network system is suffered from the APT attacks, data of attacked equipment can be quickly restored, and the system assists security managers in reversely tracking an attack source.

A method for desktop enterprise security management that addresses the multiple network and desktop security needs of an enterprise, facilitates the development, implementation, and enforcement of the enterprise's desktop security policies and procedures, and provides for review and revision of those policies and procedures. The method is based on a four-stage approach to desktop network security management. The first stage lays the foundation for the enterprise's network security policy. The second stage validates users and desktop devices according to the enterprise's desktop security policies, gathers data, and provides feedback to users regarding their compliance with the enterprise's desktop security policies. The third stage enforces the enterprise's desktop security policies by blocking access by desktop devices and/or users that do not comply with the enterprise's desktop security policies. The fourth stage includes periodic review of the enterprise's needs so that new desktop security support teams can be identified and the enterprise's desktop security policies implemented with the new teams.

The invention discloses a system and a method for managing security of a general network, and mainly overcomes the defects of poor openness and expansibility and weak functional completeness existing in the prior network security management system. The system mainly comprises peripheral equipment, a security agent terminal, a security management center and terminal management equipment, wherein the security management center applies security technology of network access control, intrusion detection, virus detection and vulnerability management to the security agent terminal through an interface component, a data base module and a user interface component; and under the unified management and control, all security technology is mutually complemented and matched to detect and control network behaviors, so that a distributed security protection system structure in which security strategies are under central management and the security detection is separately distributed is formed. The system and the method have the advantages of flexible configuration, easy expansion, good openness, support of the different level management, and suitability for the security management and protection of the computer network in governments, colleges and universities, and large- and medium-sized enterprises.

An access control rule authorizing communication between a plurality of managed servers within an administrative domain is determined. Communication information describing past communication between the plurality of managed servers is obtained. A subset of managed servers from the plurality of managed servers is identified by grouping the plurality of managed servers based on the obtained communication information. A group-level label set is determined to associate with the subset of managed servers. Role labels are determined for managed servers in the subset of managed servers. A managed server is associated with one role label. Based on the group-level label set and the role labels, an access control rule is generated authorizing communication between a first managed server of the subset of managed servers and a second managed server. The access control rule is stored as part of an administrative domain-wide management policy.

The invention discloses a method and a system for achieving right management in network management. The method includes that a server stores a plurality of pieces of user information including an account number, a password, role information and zone information, wherein the role information is used for indicating access rights of a menu and the zone information is used for indicating access rights of network equipment; a client receives and sends the account number and the password which are input by a user to the server for verification when the user logs in at the client; if the verification by the server is passed, the server returns the corresponding role information and the zone information to the client; and after the user logs in at the client, access rights of menus are set according to the role information and access rights of the network equipment are set according to the zone information. According to the method and the system, not only the problems of management repetition and management in excess of rights are solved, but also security guarantee is provided for maintenance of the network equipment, and safety of network management is safeguarded.

The invention provides associated equipment and method for internal network security management, wherein, through generating and maintaining a security management strategy and an audit strategy; the invention ensures that all the terminals accessible to internal network submit to the strategies; with respect to an piece of equipment unqualified to the strategies, the system processes the equipment as follows: providing a network isolation and locking device, and sending an warning, with the purpose of ensuring that the equipment does not bring the whole network with bad influence on the security and management. The invention not only implements an active defense mechanism of the system, but also effectively prevents some malicious acts of validated user, such as misapplication of network resource, information theft, and active attack by means of internal computers.

The invention discloses a secure access control system and method for network terminal nodes. A C/S (client/server) architecture is provided between a secure access client and a CA (certificate authority) authentication server, and another C/S architecture is provided between the secure access client and an RADIUS (remote authentication dial-in user service) authentication server; the two C/S architectures are used for user identity authentication and terminal access authentication, respectively. A B/S (browser/server) architecture is provided between a security management client and a security management server and is used mainly for registering and checking user information, setting network access group permissions and controlling and monitoring secure access in real time. The secure access control system and method has the advantages that the access terminals can be subjected to trusted identity authentication, trusted access authentication, terminal proxy authentication, network access permission control and network access state real-time monitoring; a trusted terminal access control system based on identity authentication is achieved and is stable and reliable and is high in authentication efficiency, violations such as NAT (network address translation) and proxy services can be detected and warned accurately, network states of terminal users are monitored and controlled through a web management interface, and the needs of private networks for safety management can be fully met.

The invention provides an anti-replay-attack system for an industrial wireless network, which introduces a third-party detection mechanism in order to reduce system resource consumption. The industrial wireless network comprises a gateway, a router, field equipment and network security manager. The anti-replay-attack system for the industrial wireless network comprises a third-party detection module used for detecting whether intrusion data packets and replay attack data packets exist in the industrial wireless network or not and sending detection results to the network security manager, and the network security manager compares the system resource consumption caused by replay attacks with resource consumption brought by using an anti-replay-attack means to determine whether the anti-replay-attack means is used, thereby effectively preventing the anti-replay-attack means from bringing more system resource consumption than the replay attacks, and two time stamps of creation time and sending time are added in the data packet by a sender, so that the certainty and uniqueness of messages can be ensured; a receiver detection mechanism is adopted, and the data packets of the replay attacks are judged and discarded by a receiver so as to solve the problems of ID authentication and the like.

Network security administrators are enabled with their customizable certificate authority reputation policy store which is informed by an independent certificate authority reputation server. The custom policy store overrides trusted root certificate stores accessible to an operating system web networking layer or to a third party browser. Importing revocation lists or updating browsers or operating system is made redundant. Proactive remediation is enabled to delete or disable root certificates in trusted operating system root certificate stores or in trusted browser root certificate stores by a web security agent installed at distributed endpoints. This removes the need for additional hardware or synchronous remote access over the protected endpoints.

The embodiment of the invention discloses a realtime analysis method, a realtime analysis device and a realtime analysis system of an equipment journal, relating to the computer network safety management technology. The invention is invented to realize realtime receiving and analysis of the equipment journal without compiling an analysis code and restarting the system. The method comprises the following steps: dynamic loading of an equipment journal analysis configuration file is completed and a corresponding journal analyzer is created; a journal sent by equipment is received; a corresponding journal analyzer is searched; if a corresponding journal analyzer is searched, the received equipment journal is analyzed and the analysis result is sent to an audit center. The device comprises a loading unit, a creating unit, a receiving unit, a searching unit, a journal analyzer and a transmitting unit. The system comprises an equipment control desk, a journal collecting module and an audit center. When a new equipment type is added in the system, the embodiment of the invention can realize realtime receiving and analyzes the journal of the newly arranged equipment type without restarting the system and compiling an analysis code.

The invention discloses a network safety management frame, which includes a network safety management center and a safety risk management system. The network safety management center controls the network safety management frame in a centralized way, analyzes the safety risk reports from the safety risk management system and finishes the safety configuration of network elements. The safety risk management system collects safe event information and safe defect information and analyzes to obtain the safety risk reports. The invention can provide a network information safe management method which centers on the safety risk management.

This invention relates to an system based on alarming cluster and associated network safety including a monitor module, a buffer memory module, a hierachi clustering module, a database process module, an associated analysis module and an alarm and response module integrated on the upper control stand. The hierachi clustering module can reduce the same or similar redundant alarm information, so as to reduce its transmission volume or extra loads and reduce process burden of network managers who can be even more clear about the attack behavior and configurated safety strategy.

The invention discloses a device and a method for network security management based on an alarm strategy. The device for network security management comprises a receiving unit, an alarm generation unit, a matching unit and an execution unit, wherein the receiving unit is used for receiving a security incident generated by the device for network security management; the alarm generation unit is used for generating an alarm based on the security incident with a greater risk value than a preset threshold; the matching unit is used for matching the alarm and an alarm strategy table to obtain an alarm strategy corresponding to the alarm; and the execution unit is used for executing the alarm according to the alarm strategy. According to the device and the method, the alarm information can be corrected and managed, controllability, real-time performance and flexibility of network security are improved, meanwhile, reliability for outputting the alarm information is guaranteed, and the security threat in the network is effectively blocked.

The invention provides an optimal protection policy analysis system and method based on an improved ant colony algorithm. The system comprises a network risk assessment subsystem, an attack path prediction subsystem and a security policy management subsystem. The method comprises the following steps: 1) importing a Bayesian probabilistic model to describe the complex relationship between multiple steps of atomic attacks, and constructing an attack diagram by using the Bayesian belief network to evaluate a network security risk; 2) simulating a decision making process of an attacker in combination with the quantitative indexes of the protection cost and the gain, and predicting a possible attack path; and 3) using the improved ant colony algorithm capable of calculating the quasi-optimal solution within a polynomial time to solve the security policy selection problem on the attack path. By adoption of the optimal protection policy analysis system and method, a risk solution can be provided for a network security administrator in time, the attack path prediction and protection strategy selection problems in network security protection are solved, and the security of the whole network under the condition of limited protection resources is effectively protected.

The invention relates to a trusted network identity management and verification system and method. The method comprises the following steps that: a user identity management unit maintains network identity information of a user, binds a network identity of the user with public key information, and registers the bound network identity and public key information to a trusted identity maintenance unit; a network service management unit manages an Internet service, binds corresponding public key information with a domain name, and registers the bound public key information and domain name to the trusted identity maintenance unit; the trusted identity maintenance unit deploys a DNSSEC (Domain Name System Security Extensions) protocol, and maintains identity and public key binding information of the user and the Internet service; an Internet user unit saves and manages private key information of the Internet user unit, and acquires information of a trusted Internet service provider by inquiring the trusted identity maintenance unit; and an Internet service provider unit saves and manages private key information of the Internet service provider unit, and acquires user information by inquiring the trusted identity maintenance unit. Through adoption of the trusted network identity management and verification system and method, functions such as bidirectional identity authentication, key negotiation and secure communication between the service provider and an Internet user can be supported.

The invention discloses a network vulnerability evaluation method. The method comprises the following steps of: determining vulnerability cost factors according to vulnerability cost information; obtaining a vulnerability evaluation result according to the evaluation cost factors; determining vulnerability consequence factors according to vulnerability consequence information; obtaining a vulnerability consequence evaluation result according to the vulnerability consequence factors; and determining network vulnerability according to the vulnerability cost evaluation result and the vulnerability consequence evaluation result. Therefore, the method of the invention takes the vulnerability cost factors and the vulnerability consequence factors into consideration comprehensively when evaluates the network vulnerability, and enriches and perfects the basis for network vulnerability evaluation in a targeted way, so that the accurate performance of the network vulnerability evaluation is improved obviously. Moreover, the obtained improved network vulnerability evaluation accuracy can provide important reference for network safety management, ensures that corresponding safety measures can be implemented more targeted in a planned manner based on the reference, and avoids a serious result caused by utilizing the network vulnerability.

The invention discloses a network security management and control system for accessing social video networks to a video private network. The network security management and control system comprises the video private network, multiple social video networks and multiple access equipment arranged among the video private network and the social video networks; and an integrated management platform is arranged on the video private network. According to the network security management and control system disclosed by the invention, security management and control of a network is realized through the access equipment and the integrated management platform; an illegal data flow and access of an illegal user are intercepted in a physical isolation manner from a bottom protocol level of a network data packet while real-time transmission requirements of digital video information are ensured; and thus, the access security from the social video networks to the video private network is ensured.