Method and apparatus for exercising and debugging correlations for network security system

摘要

A selected time interval of previously stored security events generated by a number of computer network devices are replayed and cross-correlated according to rules defining security incidents. Meta-events are generated when the security events satisfy conditions associated with one or more of the rules. The rules used during replay may differ from prior rules used at a time when the security events occurred within a computer network that included the computer network devices. In this way, new rules can be tested against true security event data streams to determine whether or not the rules should be used in a live environment (i.e., the efficacy of the rules can be tested and/or debugged against actual security event data).