| 20090265777 | COLLABORATIVE AND PROACTIVE DEFENSE OF NETWORKS AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS - Collaborative and proactive defense of networks and information systems. The present examples of collaborative and proactive defense of networks and information systems provides a way of protecting computer networks from hackers by stopping them from entering a protected network. Protection may be include processes that utilize communications between layers in a communications protocol stack, or its equivalent to identify threats. Identified threats may be profiled and stored in a local and/or network database that may be shared among other subscribers. Once a threat is identified it may be blocked, redirected or otherwise processed to thwart, identify, or otherwise deal with the threat. Such protection may be termed the collaborative and proactive defense of networks and information systems. | 10-22-2009 |
