US Patent 11330016 Generating collection rules based on security rules

A computing device is described that is coupled to a set of web application layer attack detectors (ADs), which are coupled between clients and web application servers. The ADs apply security rules to traffic between clients and servers and send alert packages to the computing device in response to triggering one or more security rules, which identify web application layer attacks. The computing device automatically generates attribute identifier-value pairs based on alert packages and uses the attribute identifier-value pairs along with collection rule templates to generate collection rules, which are used to inspect traffic for additional analysis. The ADs apply the collection rules to traffic and send collection packages to the computing device in response to triggering one or more collection rules.