320 results about "Threat level" patented technology

Described are techniques used in monitoring the performance, security and health of a system used in an industrial application. Agents included in the industrial network report data to an appliance or server. The appliance stores the data and determines when an alarm condition has occurred. Notifications are sent upon detecting an alarm condition. The alarm thresholds may be user defined. A threat thermostat controller determines a threat level used to control the connectivity of a network used in the industrial application.

Instrumented networks and platforms having target subjects (devices, transactions, services, users, organizations) are disclosed. A security orchestration service generates runtime operational integrity profiles representing and identifying a level of threat or contextual trustworthiness, at near real time, of subjects and applications on the instrumented target platform. Systems and methods for threat identification and remediation for computing platforms based upon reconnaissance-based intelligence correlation and network/application monitoring are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method provides runtime operational integrity of a system by receiving: a dynamic context including endpoint events; and network endpoint assessments. The method generates temporal events based on the network endpoint assessments and correlates the endpoint events and temporal events before generating an integrity profile for the system. In another embodiment, flow level remediation is provided to isolate infected or compromised systems from a computing network fabric using a network trust agent, an endpoint trust agent, and a trust orchestrator.

Described are techniques used in monitoring the performance, security and health of a system used in an industrial application. Agents included in the industrial network report data to an appliance or server. The appliance stores the data and determines when an alarm condition has occurred. Notifications are sent upon detecting an alarm condition. The alarm thresholds may be user defined. A threat thermostat controller determines a threat level used to control the connectivity of a network used in the industrial application.

The present invention provides a system and method for providing real-time wireless network monitoring and intrusion detection. The present invention profiles wireless devices and maintains a database of known/authorized wireless device profiles. Wireless devices are analyzed to determine the threat level they pose to the network, and if the threat level exceeds a predetermined threshold, the invention refuses to bridge the network traffic from the wireless devices to the wired network. The present invention provides reporting of the wireless network activity, the known and unknown wireless devices, and the threat levels posed by the wireless devices. If an unknown wireless device is determined to be, or may be, a wireless access point, an alert is generated, such as notifying a system administrator to take appropriate action.

The present invention automatically increases situational awareness relating to potential sexual predators, criminals, and/or stalkers located near a mobile device user. A location of the mobile device can be determined by device location electronics, such as a Global Positioning System (GPS). The location can be compared against at least one zone believed to be associated with a sexual predator, a criminal, and/or a stalker. Zones can be static or dynamic. A threat level associated with a zone can be computed from multiple factors, which are compared against one or more thresholds. When the threat level exceeds a thresholds, an associated threat avoidance action can be automatically initiated. One threat avoidance action is to present a warning upon a user's mobile device along with contextual information about a proximate danger.

According to one embodiment, a threat detection platform is integrated with at least one virtual machine that automatically performs a dynamic analysis of a received document object and monitors the processing during the dynamic analysis. The dynamic analysis includes a detection of embedded objects and may automatically process the embedded objects, while maintaining a context of the embedding, within the virtual machine processing the document object. The virtual machine may monitor the processing of both the document object and the embedded object. The results of the processing may be analyzed to determine whether the document object includes malware and/or a threat level of the document object.

Provided a system and method for detecting an event while discriminating against false alarms in a monitored space using at least one sensor suite to acquire signals, transmitting the signals to a sensor system device where the signal is processed into data packets, transmitting the data packets to a data fusion device, where the data packets are aggregated and algorithmic data fusion analysis is performed to generate threat level information. The threat level information is distributed to a supervisory control system where an alarm level can be generated when predetermined criteria are met to indicate the occurrence of an event in the monitored space.

A method of predicting weather-exacerbated threats, said method comprising inputting localized weather measurement data into a weather threat prediction system; predicting future localized weather conditions based on said localized weather measurement data combined with modeling from large scale weather data including National Weather Service Data; inputting natural environment and infrastructure data into said weather threat prediction system; correlating said infrastructure data with said predicted future localized weather conditions; and determining a threat level index over a region, a threat level indicating an area having a certain probabilistic likelihood of being harmed by said future weather conditions.

The invention relates to multilayer honey-net data transmission method and system, and the gateway of honey-net receives the data flow of external network; the gateway of honey-net detects the network intrusion for the received data flow; the normal data flow can pass, which is sent to the target host computer; and the informal data flow is divide into high, middle and low according to dangerous level; and the data flow with high level is sent to physical honey-tank system, the data flow with middle level is sent to virtual machine honey-tank system, and the data floe with low level is sent to virtual honey-tank system. The invention can utilize the advantages of low interactive honey-tank system and high interactive honey-tank system, save system source, and improve the covering area of honey-tank system and the ability of obtaining the movable information of network attack and capturing the malice code; it can defeat the anti-honey tank technique. And it can be used in security field of computer network.

A system is provided that that allows users to define factors that uniquely affect the security risk of certain events at a certain locale. The system can then change its behavior based on these custom risks and invoke various counter measures when threats are more likely. Accordingly, one embodiment of the invention provides for the use of contextual risk indicators in connection with threat level management.

A method for prioritizing potential threats identified by vehicle active safety systems. The method includes providing context information including map information, vehicle position information, traffic assessment information, road condition information, weather condition information, and vehicle state information. The method calculates a system context value for each active safety system using the context information. Each active safety system provides a system threat level value, a system braking value, a system steering value, and a system throttle value. The method calculates an overall threat level value using all of the system context values and all of the system threat level values. The method then provides a braking request value to vehicle brakes based on all of the system braking values, a throttle request value to a vehicle throttle based on all of the system throttle values, and a steering request value to vehicle steering based on all of the system steering values.

A system and method for automatically regulating access control levels in an access control system based on the threat level as determined by the Department of Homeland Security and/or their corresponding local offices.

This invention provides impact detection and vehicle cooperation to achieve particular goals and determine particular threat levels. For example, an impact/penetration sensing device may be provided on a soldier's clothing such that when this clothing is impacted/penetrated (e.g., penetrated to a particular extent) a medical unit (e.g., a doctor or medical chopper) may be autonomously, and immediately, provided with the soldiers location (e.g., via a GPS device on the soldier) and status (e.g., right lung may be punctured by small-arms fire).

The invention relates to a safety and security system designed to protect a designated area. The system comprises sensors of various types (radars, infrared detectors for instance) and sources of intelligence. Correlation is run between instant-track data and non-instant-track data before the level of threat of the tracks is analysed. Reliability of this analysis is thus greatly enhanced. Also a method is provided to develop systems of this type which provides an integrated specification and design method which covers technical and human factors.

An emergency lighting device for providing a directional indication on a recipient surface with first and second guidance indication light sources retained relative to a housing to emit beams of light, each with a directional indication, onto a recipient surface. The light sources can be individually operable and can have directional indications, such as arrows, pointing in first and second different directions. An illumination light source without a guidance indication can illuminate an adjacent area. Guidance indication light sources, which can be lasers, can emit beams in different colors to provide threat level indications. Plural emergency lighting devices can cooperate to guide a building occupant by providing directional indications on recipient surfaces.

An authenticated secure network communication link is established between an alert message generating computer 2 and a destination data processing system 6. The alert message sent specifies a risk threat level and a suggested countermeasure amongst other data. The destination computer 6 automatically responds to the alert message as controlled by its local response configuration parameters to trigger security actions of one or more security mechanisms, such as malware scanners, firewall scanners, security policy managers and the like.

Four threat levels reflect a prevailing risk and can be adjusted, for example, when local authorities advise of an increased likelihood of terrorist activity. Thus, a higher threat level in such system indicates a higher level of risk to a particular facility. In an embodiment of the invention, the behavior of the system changes with a simple adjustment to the threat level.

A distributed detector system is provided for remotely detecting agents indicating the presence of particular biological, explosive, or chemical targets. The distributed detector system may be used for security threat detection, manufacturing or environmental monitoring, or medical assaying. In the detection system, a central server or base station wirelessly communicates with a set of distributed detectors. In this way, the central server or base station is able to aggregate detection information, as well as apply additional processing and analysis to data collected at the detectors. Each detector has a reactive material, such as a silicon-polymer, that changes an optical property in the presence of a target agent. A camera is positioned to take images of the reactive material from time to time, and has local processing to determine when the reactive material has likely changed. In some cases, the detector may have sufficient processing power to classify the change according to its urgency or threat level. The detector wirelessly communications to the central server or base station, and appropriate alerts or notifications can be generated.