Method of implementing enterprise cyber reports
View Patent ↗A method for generating enterprise cyber reports through linking IP access control logic with error handler and audits compartmentalized by web application for different user groups with multiple monitoring tools data. Business logic may be defined in access control tables for multiple user groups sharing multiple different application data and programmable access control logic applied to subfolders within the website subfolders based on functional user group role permissions. A common network event field name may be used to map multiple different monitoring tools data into common field alias. The field alias mapping allows multiple networking capture tools to be included within the same cyber report. Joining multiple network events field alias with an IP location allows for groups of different IP zone reports to be created within the enterprise being monitored by different monitoring tools.
1. A collaborative workflow method for functional and technical teams to proactively improve cyber security of a computer network for a plurality of user groups sharing web applications over the computer network, the collaborative workflow method comprises:
providing network traffic monitoring tools to each user group of the plurality of user groups, through which each team of the functional and technical teams independently defines a set of access rules indicative of at least one normal event for each of said shared web application for each user groups
linking each set of access rules with error and audit tables of an associated shared web application, wherein the error and audit tables are configured to be compartmentalized by the shared web applications;
creating one or more allowed and normal usage baselines for each user group by comparing network traffic against each set of access rules defined by the user group; and
defining one or more firewall rules on a user-group basis based on the one or more allowed and normal usage baselines.
2. The collaborative workflow method of claim 1 , wherein defining the set of rules is provided through an access control table for each of the plurality of user groups.
3. The collaborative workflow method of claim 2 , wherein the set of rules comprises an application of programmable access control logic applied to subfolders or files within the respective web application.
4. The collaborative workflow method of claim 3 , wherein the application of programmable access control logic is based on functional user group role permissions.
5. The collaborative workflow method of claim 4 , further comprises mapping a network event field name of the computer network of each data element of each of the plurality of monitoring tools data into a common field alias.
6. The collaborative workflow method of claim 5 , further comprises joining network traffic of the computer network and event data with an IP location linked to a user.
7. The collaborative workflow method of claim 6 , further comprises generating a cyber report comprising the allowed and normal usage baselines for the plurality of user groups.
8. The collaborative workflow method of claim 7 , wherein the cyber report comprises an abnormal event baseline for the plurality of user groups based on said set of rules.
9. The collaborative workflow method of claim 8 , wherein the cyber report comprises a definition of one or more firewall alerts based on the allowed and normal usage baselines.
10. The collaborative workflow method of claim 1 , further comprising applying access control to business logic of each shared web application so that each firewall rule matches the associated business logic.