Anthony S Scott

US Patent:

20110288692, Nov 24, 2011

Filed:

May 9, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/103538

Inventors:

Anthony David Scott - Washington DC, US

Assignee:

Accenture Global Services GmbH - Schaffhausen

International Classification:

G05B 9/02
G06F 1/26

US Classification:

700297

Abstract:

A system for characterizing malicious activity in an intelligent utility grid system includes a system storage in which to store a database including a plurality of rules. A collector is operable to collect and store in the system storage information-technology (IT) data including IT-related activity from the intelligent grid system. A complex event processing (CEP) bus is operable to receive non-IT data including location-specific event data from a plurality of electronic sources, the CEP bus further operable to disregard the non-IT data failing to meet a predetermined level of relevance to one of a plurality of risk-related events. A processor is operable to apply the plurality of rules to the relevant non-IT data to: associate an undesired event with reference to the IT-related activity; and determine a probability that the undesired event is indicative of malicious activity. The processor further applies a risk characterization to the undesired event based on the probability and the IT-related activity.