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US 12,309,206 B2Granted
System and method for creating access control policies for individual users, user groups, network host or network host groups through network traffic analysis
AssigneeEricom Software Ltd.
InventorJohn Peterson
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Abstract
A method and system for automatically creating access control policies for a network, including: (a) automatically identifying and recording user or host entities that attach to the network; (b) monitoring allowed network communications from the user or host entities; (c) correlating network address information from the allowed network communications with names of the user or host entities; and (d) proposing a respective access control policy for each of the user or host entities based on information gleaned during a learning process.
Claims4
A method for automatically creating access control policies for a network, comprising:
- (a) automatically identifying and recording user or host entities that attach to the network, each of the user or host entities being assigned respective network addresses;
- (b) monitoring allowed network communications from said user or host entities to extract the respective network addresses;
- (c) removing any existing access control policies previously assigned to the network addresses;
- (d) correlating the respective network addresses with corresponding existing access control policies of said user or host entities based on said allowed network communications;
- (e) performing a learning process, on user or host entities for which no existing access control policies exist;
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- (f) proposing a respective access control policy for each of said user or host entities based on information gleaned during the learning process.
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