Abstract:
A data transfer apparatus includes a first memory, a second memory, a search unit, and a data transmitting/receiving unit. The first memory holds information that associates a search key with an address. The second memory holds information that associates the address with verification information which is generated by a predetermined generation method based on at least a portion of the search key. The search unit generates the search key based on the received data, obtains, from the first memory, the address that is associated with the generated search key, obtains, from the second memory, the verification information that is associated with the obtained address, and verifies the verification information that is generated by the predetermined generation method based on at least a portion of the generated search key with the verification information obtained from the second memory. The data transmitting/receiving unit executes processing based on a result of the verification.
Abstract:
It is provided an authentication method for realizing a network authentication function for an authentication system, the authentication system including an authentication server for authenticating a terminal used by a user, and a switch for mediating an authentication sequence between the terminal and the authentication server. The authentication method includes steps of: providing, by the switch, identification information for identifying the switch to the authentication server in the authentication sequence; authenticating, by the authentication server, an authentication request transmitted from the terminal; transmitting, by the authentication server, an authentication result of the authentication to the switch based on the provided identification information on the switch; and authenticating, by the switch, access from the terminal based on the authentication result received from the authentication server.
Abstract:
An authentication switch monitors a failure of an external server, and redirect information to a Web server that holds authentication information registration screen data is provided to a terminal using a monitoring result. A life-and-death monitoring control unit for monitoring life and death of an external Web server is disposed within an authentication switch to monitor the life and death of the external Web server. An authentication processing unit within the authentication switch switches the redirect information on the basis of a life-and-death monitoring table of the external Web server provided in the life-and-death monitoring control unit in response to an authentication request from the terminal, and enables web authentication even when the external Web server is in failure.
Abstract:
A data transfer apparatus includes a first memory, a second memory, a search unit, and a data transmitting/receiving unit. The first memory holds information that associates a search key with an address. The second memory holds information that associates the address with verification information which is generated by a predetermined generation method based on at least a portion of the search key. The search unit generates the search key based on the received data, obtains, from the first memory, the address that is associated with the generated search key, obtains, from the second memory, the verification information that is associated with the obtained address, and verifies the verification information that is generated by the predetermined generation method based on at least a portion of the generated search key with the verification information obtained from the second memory. The data transmitting/receiving unit executes processing based on a result of the verification.
Abstract:
Network switching arrangements including: setting an operation mode of a target switching block to a operation mode that is different from an operation mode of a first switching block while the first switching block is handling a switching process, the target switching block being one switching block selected from second switching blocks; performing a switchover process including starting the switching process using the target switching block instead of the first switching block, after completion of setting the operation mode of the target switching block; and copying the switching information held by the first switching block to the target switching block, prior to starting the switching process using the target switching block, after completion of setting the operation mode of the target switching block.
Abstract:
Network repeaters which each implement a redundant switching function previously grasp connection states of ports of a network system by using an inquiry frame and an exchange frame. At the time when a line is broken, when actively confirming a state of a port connected to a port in which a line is broken via a downstream device, the network repeaters each grasp that which portion of the line is broken and determine whether a switchover is required. Through the process, the network repeaters each prevent a useless switchover such as switching-back immediately after the switchover, and at the same time since a mechanism of waiting for a given length of times is not required, they each perform a fast switchover.
Abstract:
A monitoring apparatus holds extracted information including: extracted data from first communication between a proxy and a first network and from second communication between the proxy and a second network; and reception times of a target data, wherein the extracted data includes kinds of communication, sources and destinations of the target data in the first communication, and the sources in the second network and the destinations in the first network after the target data is relayed by the proxy in the second communication, the monitoring apparatus: for first extracted data of first kind of communication in the first communication, acquires second extracted data in the second communication whose reception time is coincidental time zone of the reception time of the first extracted data; and determines whether communication using the target data from which the acquired second extracted data is extracted is included in a series of end-to-end communication.
Abstract:
A packet relay apparatus, which is configured to transmit from a mirror port a mirror packet copied from one of a packet to be received and a packet to be transmitted, the packet relay apparatus comprising: a packet receiving module configured to receive a packet from an input port; a security judgment module configured to judge whether or not the packet is possibly one of an attack and an attack sign; a mirror processing module configured to generate, when it is judged that the packet is possibly one of an attack and an attack sign, a replica of the packet as the mirror packet; and a transmitting module configured to transmit the mirror packet from the mirror port.
Abstract:
A network anomaly detection apparatus configured to detect an anomaly of a network to be monitored based on received flow statistical information, the network anomaly detection apparatus including a processor, a memory, a statistical information collection unit, an anomaly detection unit and scenario information. The statistical information collection unit configured to receive flow statistical information aggregated from header information of packets in the network and collect the flow statistical information in a flow statistical information storage unit. Scenario information including a scenario in which a time-series sequential relation of events concerning a plurality of flows is defined. The anomaly detection unit configured to acquire flow statistical information in a predetermined period from the flow statistical information storage unit and determine whether any anomaly exists in the network based on whether any flow statistical information matching the events in the scenario of the scenario information exists.
Abstract:
A transfer device includes: first and second ports connected to L3 and L2 networks, respectively; a storage unit that stores data processing information which brings a MAC address of a communication device in the L2 network into correspondence with information regarding processing of data, and address information which brings an IP address of the communication device in the L2 network into correspondence with the MAC address thereof; and a transfer unit that, upon receiving data addressed to the communication device in the L2 network through the first port, searches the address information with an IP address in the data to acquire a MAC address corresponding to the IP address, searches the data processing information with the acquired MAC address, and depending on a search result, controls whether to transfer the data through the first port based on information regarding processing of data corresponding to the acquired MAC address.