Infrastructure monitoring tool for collecting industrial process control and automation system risk data

This disclosure provides an infrastructure monitoring tool, and related systems and methods, for collecting industrial process control and automation system risk data, and other data. A method includes discovering multiple devices in a computing system by a risk manager system. The method includes g...

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Main Authors Kowalczyk, Andrew W, Dietrich, Kenneth W, Talamanchi, Venkata Srinivasulu Reddy, Boice, Eric T, Gadhe, Ganesh P
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 10.07.2018
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
ELECTRICITY
PHYSICS
TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION
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Summary:This disclosure provides an infrastructure monitoring tool, and related systems and methods, for collecting industrial process control and automation system risk data, and other data. A method includes discovering multiple devices in a computing system by a risk manager system. The method includes grouping the multiple devices into multiple security zones by the risk manager system. The method includes, for each security zone, causing one or more devices in that security zone to provide information to the risk manager system identifying alerts and events associated with the one or more devices. The method includes storing the information, by the risk manager system, in association with unique identifier values, the unique identifier values identifying different types of information.
Bibliography:Application Number: US201514871732