Lattice-based inference of network services and their dependencies from header and flow data

摘要

Described is system for automatically detecting network services and their dependencies. The system generates a first context table having rows of packet headers and columns of header field values. A first concept lattice is generated from the first context table, and network services and corresponding packet headers are identified. A second context table is generated using the networks services data, and a second concept lattice is generated from the second context table. Network service dependencies are identified using the second concept lattice. The context tables are used to monitor the plurality of network service dependencies.