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US 9,292,881 B2Granted
Social sharing of security information in a group
AssigneeCrowdStrike, Inc.
InventorsDmitri Alperovitch, George Robert Kurtz, David F. Diehl, Sven Krasser, Adam S. Meyers
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Abstract
Techniques for social sharing security information between client entities forming a group are described herein. The group of client entities is formed as a result of a security server providing one or more secure mechanisms for forming a group among client entities, the client entities each belonging to a different organization. The security service then automatically shares security information of a client entity in the group with one or more other client entities in the group.
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A computer-implemented method comprising:
- forming, by a group formation module of security service computing device(s), a group including multiple client entities, each client entity being associated with a different security organization and each client entity having one or more computing devices, each computing device configured with an executable security agent;
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- automatically sharing, by a sharing module of the security service computing device(s), security information generated by the executable security agent(s) of a client entity in the group with the executable security agent(s) of computing device(s) of one or more other client entities in the group,
- wherein the security information is generated by the executable security agent(s) of the client entity based on monitoring of execution activities of the computing device(s) of the client entity,
- wherein the security information is indicative of whether the client entity is experiencing a security threat, and
- wherein each client entity is able to impose a security scheme or policy on its computing device(s) but is unable to impose the security scheme or policy on computing device(s) of other client entities.
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A system comprising:
- a plurality of computing devices associated with a plurality of entities, wherein the entities belong to a group of entities that share security information with each other and each entity is associated with a different security organization;
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- a plurality of security agents respectively implemented on the plurality of computing devices, the security agents observing execution activities of their respective computing devices, generating the security information based on the observed execution activities, sharing the security information with one another, and utilizing the security information in observing or reacting to further execution activities of the computing devices on which they are implemented,
- wherein the security information is indicative of whether the security agents are experiencing a security threat, and
- wherein each entity is able to impose a security scheme or policy on its computing device(s) but is unable to impose the security scheme or policy on computing device(s) of other entities.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.