Systems and methods for automatically applying firewall policies within data center applications

A system for automatically applying firewall policies within data center applications, the system comprising:

• at least one hardware memory;
• an identification module, stored in the hardware memory, that identifies a data center application whose functionality is provided by a set of systems;
• an organization module, stored in the hardware memory, that organizes, automatically by a computing device, the set of systems into one or more application model groups that each comprise a group of applications with a same security context by, for each system in the set of systems:
• identifying an attribute of the system within the set of systems that is indicative of a security context under which the system should operate;
• assigning the system to an application model group for which the security context will be provided;
• a security module, stored in the hardware memory, that, for each application model group in the one or more application model groups, protects the application model group by:
• selecting a firewall configuration that, when applied, will provide the security context for the application model group based at least in part on correlating metadata about the firewall configuration with the application model group;
• using the selected firewall configuration to protect the application model group;
• at least one physical processor configured to execute the identification module, the organization module, and the security module.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising one or more computer-readable instructions that, when executed by at least one processor of a computing device, cause the computing device to:

• identify a data center application whose functionality is provided by a set of systems;
• organize, automatically by the computing device, the set of systems into one or more application model groups that each comprise a group of applications with a same security context by, for each system in the set of systems:
• identifying an attribute of the system within the set of systems that is indicative of a security context under which the system should operate;
• assigning the system to an application model group for which the security context will be provided;
• for each application model group in the one or more application model groups, protect the application model group by:
• selecting a firewall configuration that, when applied, will provide the security context for the application model group based at least in part on correlating metadata about the firewall configuration with the application model group;
• using the selected firewall configuration to protect the application model group.