Mandiant, Inc.
System and method for managing sensor enrollment

Abstract:

Sensor enrollment management is conducted where features and capabilities for one or more broker computing nodes within the cluster are received by an enrollment service operating within a management system. The enrollment service is configured to receive advertised features and capabilities for computing nodes that are part of a cluster and provide address information associated with the enrollment service to the sensor. Based on information supplied by the sensor, the enrollment service authenticates the sensor, and upon authentication, forwards keying material associated with the sensor to a computing node selected that is selected for supporting communications to the cluster from the sensor. Also, the enrollment service provides a portion of the advertised features and capabilities associated with the computing node to the sensor to enable the sensor to establish a secure communication path with the computing node for malware analysis of suspicious objects within network traffic monitored by the sensor.