System and method for behavior-based firewall modeling
US7610621B2 · kind B2 · utility
100Cited by
66References
20Claims
0Family size
Assignee
Inventors
Key dates
| Filing date | Mar 10, 2005 |
| Grant date | Oct 27, 2009 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 12, 2027 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L63/0263
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
One embodiment of the present invention creates a model of the traffic through a network firewall and uses that model to dynamically manipulate the network firewall based on human intervention or based on the automatic invocations of processes and protocols that implement firewall policy. Another embodiment of the invention creates a model of the physical and virtual network interfaces that a firewall system controls and presents abstracted entities representing both the interface abstractions and the processing nodes (network segments or network client devices) to and through which network traffic flows.
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.