US Patent 11184368 Systems and methods for reporting computer security incidents

Alert manager software dynamically assembles a security alert as various security scenarios are tested to reach a verdict. Each executed scenario may contribute a scenario-specific message, so the resulting compound security alert indicates an actual line of reasoning used in reaching the respective verdict. The described systems and methods apply, inter alia, to the analysis of high-volume network flows in corporate networks. In some embodiments, flows are pre-tagged with extra metadata to facilitate detection of malware and/or intrusion.