TECHNIQUES FOR MONITORING COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURE

Number: 20210365564
Published: 2021-11-25
Filed: 2020-05-22
Assignee: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.
Inventors: EWAIDA; Bashar H. M., NAVARRO; Gregory J.
CPC: G06F21/577; G06N20/00; G06N5/04; G06F11/3006; G06N3/09; G06F11/3086; G06F11/3495
Verdict: Set aside IT infrastructure monitoring, security/ops
Source: Google Patents · FreePatentsOnline

Abstract

A technique for monitoring a computing infrastructure having one or more target devices includes receiving, from a plurality of evaluation services, evaluation results of one or more target devices. The technique further includes extracting, using a different data collector for each of the plurality of evaluation services, data from each of the evaluation results. The technique further includes converting the extracted data to a common format, determining whether an issue or a vulnerability is present in the one or more target devices based on the extracted and converted data, and reporting the issue or the vulnerability.

Background

BACKGROUND Field of the Invention

The various embodiments relate generally to management of computing devices and, more particularly, to techniques for monitoring computing infrastructure. Description of the Related Art

Network connected computing devices, including devices providing content and/or services for other computing devices over networks, such as the Internet, are often subject to attack by hackers, malware, and/or the like. For example, one common form of attack is based on port scanning. In a port scanning attack, a port scanning toolkit is used to systematically scan each of the network ports at a target IP address to determine which ports have a service that is open and listening on the port. Once a port is determined to be open, malware tools are used to initiate various attacks on the listening service to see if the listening service is susceptible to any vulnerability that may be used to gain unauthorized access to the computing device.

To help safeguard against these and other types of attacks, the information technology (IT) team of the owner of a computing system typically employs a number of evaluation tools to scan and assess each of the computing devices to determine which of the computing devices, if any, have issues and/or vulnerabilities that may require attention by the IT team so as to further safeguard and/or improve the reliability of the computing devices. Once one or more issues and/or vulnerabilities are detected, the IT

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for monitoring a computing infrastructure having one or more target devices, the method comprising: receiving, from a plurality of evaluation services, evaluation results of one or more target devices; extracting, using a different data collector for each of the plurality of evaluation services, data from each of the evaluation results; converting the extracted data to a common format; determining whether an issue or a vulnerability is present in the one or more target devices based on the extracted and converted data; and reporting the issue or the vulnerability. || 11. One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media including instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to monitor a computing infrastructure having one or more target devices by performing steps comprising: receiving, from a plurality of evaluation services, evaluation results of one or more computing devices; extracting data from each of the evaluation results; converting the extracted data to a common format; determining whether an issue or a vulnerability is present in the one or more computing devices based on the extracted and converted data; and reporting the issue or the vulnerability. || 16. A computing device, comprising: a memory; and one or more processors coupled to the memory; wherein the one or more processors are configured to: receive, from a plurality of evaluation services, evaluation results of one or more target devices; extract, using a different data collector for each of the plurality of evaluation services, data from each of the evaluation results; convert the extracted data to a common format; determine whether an issue or a vulnerability is present in the one or more target devices based on the extracted and converted data; and report the issue or the vulnerability.