Suppression of False Alarms in Alarms Arising from Intrusion Detection Probes in a Monitored Information System

Abstract

The invention relates to a system and a method of suppressing false alarms among alarms issued by intrusion detection sensors (13a, 13b, 13c) of a protected information system (1) including entities (9, 11a, 11b) generating attacks associated with the alarms and an alarm management system (15), the method comprising the following steps: using a false alarm suppression module (23) to define qualitative relationships between the entities (9, 11a, 11b) and a set of profiles; using the false alarm suppression module (23) to define nominative relationships between the set of profiles and a set of names of attacks which that set of profiles is recognized as generating; and using the false alarm suppression module (23) to qualify a given alarm as a false alarm if the entity (9, 11a, 11b) implicated in the given alarm has a profile recognized as generating the attack associated with that given alarm.

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