US Patent 11689560 Network-wide malware mapping

A network management system is configured to detect one or more malicious activities at one or more devices connected to a network. The network management system is configured to determine a malware root of the one or more malicious activities and generate a network-wide indicating a hierarchical relationship between the malicious activities spawned by the malware root and the malware root. The malicious activities spawned by the malware root represented in the network-wide malware include the one or more malicious activities and include a plurality of malicious activities spawned across a plurality of devices connected to the network.