Rule combination in a firewall
AssigneeSecure Computing Corporation
InventorsDavid Diehl, Scott DeLoach, Jaideep Roy
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Abstract
A firewall system comprises a rule management tool that is operable to evaluate a rule set for rules that may be merged, present selected rules that can be merged to an administrator, along with an indication of any change in function of the resulting merged rule, and receive input from the administrator indicating whether to merge the selected rules.
Claims20
A firewall system comprising a rule management tool that is operable to:
- evaluate a rule set for rules that may be merged;
- present selected rules that can be merged to an administrator, along with an indication of any change in function of the resulting merged rule;
- and
- receive input from the administrator indicating whether to merge the selected rules.
A method of managing rules in a firewall, comprising:
- evaluating a rule set for rules that may be merged;
- presenting selected rules that can be merged to an administrator, along with an indication of any change in function of the resulting merged rule;
- and
- receiving input from the administrator indicating whether to merge the selected rules.
A machine-readable medium with instructions stored thereon, the instructions when executed operable to cause a computerized firewall system to:
- evaluate a rule set for rules that may be merged;
- present selected rules that can be merged to an administrator, along with an indication of any change in function of the resulting merged rule;
- and
- receive input from the administrator indicating whether to merge the selected rules.
A firewall administrator tool operable to:
- evaluate a rule set for rules that may be merged;
- present selected rules that can be merged to an administrator, along with an indication of any change in function of the resulting merged rule;
- and
- receive input from the administrator indicating whether to merge the selected rules.
A firewall administrator tool operable to:
- evaluate a rule set for interaction of a new rule with rules in a rule set;
- present rule interaction of the new rule with the rule set to an administrator, along with an indication of any change in function resulting from at least one of adding the new rule or merging the new rule into the rule set;
- and
- receiving input from the administrator indicating at least one of whether to add or merge the selected rules.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.