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NON-INTRUSIVE METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY DISPATCHING SECURITY RULES IN CLOUD ENVIRONMENT

  • US 20150033285A1
  • Filed: 09/12/2012
  • Published: 01/29/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/24/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A non-intrusive method for automatically dispatching a plurality of security rules in a cloud environment, comprising:

  • forming a composition application model of an application in the cloud environment, wherein said composition application model comprises various servers for deploying said application;

    generating a topology model of said various servers in the cloud environment;

    automatically generating a plurality of security rules to be adopted by a plurality of server-side firewalls for respective various servers based on an application context of the following;

    (i) said application, (ii) said composition application model, (iii) and said topology model; and

    dispatching said plurality of security rules to each server-side firewall based on said composition application model and said topology model.

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