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Method of dynamically updating network security policy rules when new network resources are provisioned in a service landscape

US8424053B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

Sivaram Gottimukkala · Morrisville, US
Lap T. Huynh · Apex, US
Dinakaran Joseph · Apex, US
Linwood H. Overby, Jr. · Raleigh, US
Wesley McMillan Devine · Apex, US
Michael Behrendt · Randersacker, DE
Gerd Breiter · Wildberg, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jul 1, 2008
Grant date	Apr 16, 2013
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Apr 17, 2031

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04L63/0263
WIPO fieldDigital communication
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A computer-implemented method is provided for updating network security policy rules when network resources are provisioned in a service landscape instance. The method includes categorizing network resources in a service landscape instance based on a service landscape model. The method further includes responding to the provisioning of a network resource by automatically generating one or more security policy rules for a newly-provisioned network resource. Additionally, the method includes updating security policy rules of pre-existing network resources in the service landscape instance that are determined to be eligible to communicate with the newly-provisioned network resource so as to include the newly-provisioned network resource as a remote resource based on the service landscape model.

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