Parallelism and n-tiering of knowledge inference and statistical correlation system

An n-tiering security threat inference and correlation apparatus (100) for monitoring and anticipating cyber attacks is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a plurality of groups of inference-correlation systems (106(a, b)-1 14(a, b)), each group arranged with at least one inference system and at least one associated correlation system configured to monitor at least one network; and an input/output (I/O) system (102) configured to receive security events, and broadcast the received security events to the plurality of groups of inference-correlation systems; wherein the respective groups of inference-correlation systems are configured to process only the broadcasted security events relevant to the respective networks to identify the cyber attacks. A method of operating the apparatus is also disclosed.