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Policy management

  • US 10,333,990 B2
  • Filed: 12/20/2017
  • Issued: 06/25/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/13/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer program product comprising non-transitory computer executable code embodied in a computer readable medium that, when executing on one or more computing devices, performs the steps of:

  • organizing a number of applications into a number of application types including at least a messaging category, an electronic mail category, a word processing category, a database category, and a browser category;

    providing a policy management service for an enterprise network, the policy management service configured to provide protection services to one or more endpoints of the enterprise network by restricting usage of endpoint resources based on the number of application types and a connection type;

    detecting an application executing on one of the endpoints;

    identifying the connection type for the one of the endpoints;

    determining one of the number of application types for the application by disassembling binary code of the application to recreate one or more functional blocks of the application and matching the one or more functional blocks to a phenotype representing one of the number of application types; and

    applying the protection services to conditionally limit network access by the application on the endpoint based on the one of the number of application types and the connection type for the one of the endpoints.

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