US Patent:
20200169579, May 28, 2020
Inventors:
- San Francisco CA, US
John Coates - Berkeley CA, US
James M. Hansen - San Ramon CA, US
Lucas Murphey - Wadsworth IL, US
David Hazekamp - Tinley Park CA, US
Michael Kinsley - San Francisco CA, US
Alexander Raitz - San Francisco CA, US
International Classification:
H04L 29/06
G06F 21/55
Abstract:
A metric value is determined for each event in a set of events that characterizes a computational communication or object. For example, a metric value could include a length of a URL or agent string in the event. A subset criterion is generated, such that metric values within the subset are relatively separated from a population's center (e.g., within a distribution tail). Application of the criterion to metric values produces a subset. A representation of the subset is presented in an interactive dashboard. The representation can include unique values in the subset and counts of corresponding event occurrences. Clients can select particular elements in the representation to cause more detail to be presented with respect to individual events corresponding to specific values in the subset. Thus, clients can use their knowledge system operations and observance of value frequencies and underlying events to identify anomalous metric values and potential security threats.