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Method and system for distributing security policies

  • US 20060129808A1
  • Filed: 11/19/2004
  • Published: 06/15/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/19/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method in a computer system for distributing rules of security policies to enforcement engines for enforcing the security policies, the method comprising:

  • providing at the computer system enforcement engines that implement different layers of security enforcement;

    receiving and storing at the computer system security policies having rules, each rule having a rule type;

    under control of a firewall agent executing on the computer system, retrieving the stored security policies; and

    for rules of a retrieved security policy, identifying an enforcement engine to which a rule applies based on the rule type of the rule; and

    providing the rule to the identified enforcement engine; and

    under control of the enforcement engines, enforcing the rules provided to the enforcement engine by the firewall agent, wherein the firewall agent provides a mechanism for distributing the rules to multiple enforcement engines of the computer system.

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