Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20080047019
Filing Date: August 16, 2006
Inventors: John Reumann, Dinesh C. Verma
Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
Current U.S. Classification: 726, 726/026000
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The computer program product of Claim 19, wherein:
said operational data comprises:
an IP address of a remote party of a connection with said computer network;
and a domain name associated with said IP address;
said enterprise data comprises user registration information maintained by a provider of network connectivity to said remote party of said connection; and said computer program product further includes:
computer useable program code for correlating said operational data with said enterprise data to obtain correlated data by checking that said domain name displayed to a local party of said connection matches said user registration information; and
computer useable program code for using said correlated data to improve security of said computer network by displaying an alert to said local party of said connection based on an outcome of said correlating step.