Apparatus and method for monitoring and auditing activity of a legacy environment
An apparatus and a method for monitoring and auditing activity of a legacy environment. The apparatus includes an analyzer and a mirror manager. The analyzer is operative to analyze intercepted packets conveyed by entities in a network and to generate analyzed data based on information associated with at least some of the packets. The analyzed data is indicative of sessions. The mirror manager is responsive to the analyzed data for generating data representative of mirror sessions, each mirror session corresponding to a session.
1. An apparatus configured to monitor and audit activity in a network, the network utilizes an incremental screen protocol, the apparatus comprising:
a) an analyzer being configured to analyze intercepted packets, wherein the packets are conveyed between entities in the network other than the apparatus, and being configured to generate analyzed data based on information associated with at least some of the packets, the analyzed data being indicative of sessions and being indicative of the incremental screen protocol used in each of the sessions;
b) a mirror manager being incrementally updated to reflect mirror data, the mirror data including information indicative of a most recent change in an on-screen field location of data responsive to the intercepted packets;
c) a data storage unit comprising a non-transitory computer-readable medium accessible thereto for storing the data indicative of sessions and being indicative of the incremental screen protocol; and
d) an audit event analyzer being responsive to the mirror data, the audit event analyzer being configured to generate event data representative of audit events between the other entities in the network,
the event data including characteristics relating to the on-screen field location of data being part of the audit events, the on-screen field location being representative of at least one operation performed in the network.
2. The apparatus of claim 1 , further comprising a first long term data storage device for storing at least part of the analyzed data.
3. The apparatus of claim 1 , further comprising a second long term data storage device for storing at least part of the mirror data representative of mirror sessions.
4. The apparatus of claim 1 , further comprising a compression agent for compressing at least part of the mirror data representative of mirror sessions.
5. The apparatus of claim 1 , further comprising a encryption agent for encrypting at least part of the mirror data representative of mirror sessions.
6. The apparatus of claim 1 , further comprising a signature agent for digitally signing at least part of the mirror data representative of mirror sessions.
7. A method of monitoring and auditing activity in a network, the network utilizes an incremental screen protocol, the method comprising:
a) analyzing from a first entity intercepted packets conveyed between second and third entities in the network;
b) generating analyzed data based on information associated with at least some of the packets, the analyzed data being indicative of sessions and being indicative of the incremental screen protocol used in each of the sessions;
c) incrementally updating to reflect a most recent change in an on-screen field location of data responsive to the intercepted packets;
d) storing, in a data storage unit comprising a non-transitory computer-readable medium accessible thereto, the data indicative of sessions and being indicative of the incremental screen protocol;
e) generating event data representative of audit events between the second and third entities in the network, the event data including characteristics relating to the on-screen field location of data being part of audit events, the on-screen field location being representative of at least one operation performed in the network.
8. The method of claim 7 , further comprising storing at least part of the analyzed data.
9. The method of claim 7 , further comprising storing at least part of the mirror data representative of mirror sessions.
10. The method of claim 7 , further comprising compressing at least part of the mirror data representative of mirror sessions.
11. The method of claim 7 , further comprising encrypting at least part of the mirror data representative of mirror sessions.
12. The method of claim 7 , further comprising digitally signing at least part of the mirror data representative of mirror sessions.
13. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer medium having computer readable program code embodied therein for monitoring and auditing activity in a network, when the executed by a processor, the network utilizes an incremental screen protocol to perform operations comprising:
a) analyzing from a first entity intercepted packets conveyed between second and third entities in the network;
b) generating analyzed data based on information associated with at least some of the packets, the analyzed data being indicative of sessions and being indicative of the incremental screen protocol used in each of the sessions;
c) incrementally updating a mirror manager to reflect a most recent change in an on-screen field location of data responsive to the intercepted packets;
d) storing, in a data storage unit comprising a non-transitory computer-readable medium accessible thereto, the data indicative of sessions and being indicative of the incremental screen protocol;
e) generating event data representative of audit events between the second and third entities in the network, the event data including characteristics relating to the on-screen field location of data being part of audit events, the on-screen field location being representative of at least one operation performed in the network.
14. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer medium having computer readable program code embodied therein for auditing activity in a network, when executed by a processor, the network utilizes an incremental screen protocol to operations comprising:
a) analyzing from a first entity intercepted packets conveyed between second and third entities in the network;
b) generating analyzed data based on information associated with at least some of the packets, the analyzed data being indicative of sessions and being indicative of the incremental screen protocol used in each of the sessions;
c) incrementally updating a mirror manager to reflect a most recent change in an on-screen field location of data responsive to the intercepted packets storing, in a data storage unit comprising a non-transitory computer-readable medium accessible thereto, the data indicative of sessions and being indicative of the incremental screen protocol;
d) generating event data representative of inbound audit event and outbound audit events between the second and third entities in the network, the event data including characteristics relating to the on-screen field location of data being part of the inbound audit events and outbound audit events, the on-screen field location being representative of at least one operation performed in the network;
e) extracting extracted data from event data representative of an inbound audit event together with the characteristics respective of the inbound audit event; and
f) generating event data representative of a united audit event by combining the extracted data with one or more fields in event data representative of an outbound audit event based on the characteristics.