Integrating security policy and event management

Logic encoded in non-transitory media that includes code for execution and when executed by a processor is operable to perform operations comprising:

• identifying a plurality of security events detected in a computing system, each security event in the plurality of security events based on at least one policy in a plurality of security policies defined for the computing system;
• presenting a first representation of the plurality of security events in an interactive graphical user interface, wherein the first representation of the plurality of security events includes a plurality of selectable event elements, each event element representing at least one security event in the plurality of security events;
• receiving, via the interactive graphical user interface, a user selection of a particular event element presented in the first representation;
• and
• identifying a subset of the plurality of security policies, each security policy in the subset serving as a basis for at least one particular security event represented by the particular event element.

A system comprising:

• at least one processor device;
• at least one memory element;
• and
• a security event user interface engine, adapted when executed by the at least one processor device to:
• identify a plurality of security events detected in a computing system, each security event in the plurality of security events based on at least one policy in a plurality of security policies defined for the computing system;
• present a first representation of at least a portion of the plurality of security policies in an interactive graphical user interface, wherein the first representation of the portion of security policies includes a plurality of selectable policy elements, each policy element representing at least one security policy in the plurality of security policies;
• receive, via the interactive graphical user interface, a user selection of a particular policy element presented in the first representation;
• and
• identify a subset of the plurality of security events, each security event in the subset based at least in part on at least one particular security policy represented by the particular policy element.