System for and method of determining data connections between software applications

A system for automatically regulating data connections of an application program, the system comprising:

• an application service registry;
• a source data repository in communication with the application service registry;
• the application service registry comprising software instructions that when executed by a first processor cause the first processor to:
• extract metadata information pertaining to permitted application data connections;
• the source data repository comprising software instructions that when executed by a second processor, cause the second processor to:
• establish a software application requirements definition for the application program corresponding to an application development phase, the software application requirements definition comprises allowed connections with other applications and data sources;
• store the definitions of allowed connections to a metadata document;
• embed the definitions of allowed connections as metadata into a source code for the application program;
• automatically establish firewall rules from the metadata to,
• identify a plurality of communication endpoints, the plurality of communication endpoints including the application program;
• extract the metadata corresponding to each of the plurality of communication endpoints;
• and
• determine whether a connection between each of the plurality of communication endpoints is permitted based on a comparison of the extracted metadata;
• automatically establish an allowed application data listing from the metadata;
• and
• configure an application interface manager using the allowed application data listing.