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AssigneeAT&T Corp.
InventorsWilliam Aiello, Charles Kalmanek, William Leighton, Patrick McDaniel, Subhabrata Sen, Oliver Spatscheck, Jacobus Van der Merwe
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A reverse firewall for removing undesirable traffic from a computing network, such as a virtual private network (VPN), is disclosed. The reverse firewall uses firewall rules that may be determined and maintained within the enterprise network to control communication sent between computers in the computing network. The reverse firewall rules may be used to identify the communications between computers in the network that are undesirable and/or intrusive. For example, a computer in a network that is infected with a worm or that is surreptitiously hosting a denial-of-service attack may be identified by the reverse firewall and quarantined. The reverse firewall may be implemented in hardware and/or software.
A method for securing a network using a reverse firewall, the reverse firewall accessing a profile of a host in the network, the method comprising the steps of:
A method for determining a communications management policy for a reverse firewall in a network, the method comprising the steps of:
A network device for controlling a network communication sent from a host in a network, the network device configured to enforce a profile of the host and a throttling discipline, the device comprising:
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