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DISTRIBUTED SECURITY ARCHITECTURE

  • US 20090228951A1
  • Filed: 03/05/2008
  • Published: 09/10/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/05/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A distributed security architecture comprising:

  • a mobile anti-tamper hardware policy enforcement point that is configured to control communication behaviors of a mobile client by enforcing communication policies within a policy decision point;

    a mobile anti-tamper hardware policy decision point that is encapsulated within the mobile anti-tamper hardware policy enforcement point;

    a policy exchange channel for policy distribution nodes which is configured to at least one of distribute and update communication and routing security policies to the mobile client;

    a contextual manager that is configured to handle system-wide status change update signaling; and

    a mobility authentication manager which is configured to provide mobile clients with registration and credential/role assignments based on mobile access policies;

    wherein the distributed security architure is configured to provide discretionary open system inteconnection layer 3.5 policy-based secure routing, and discretionary open system inteconnection layer 2 policy-based mandatory access control address filtering to achieve secure communication and computing for layers 4, 5, 6, and 7.

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