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Firewall system protecting a community of appliances, appliance participating in the system and method of updating the firewall rules within the system

  • US 7,676,836 B2
  • Filed: 07/05/2005
  • Issued: 03/09/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/09/2004
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A firewall system comprising a community of interconnectable appliances sharing at least one common global security rule, wherein the firewall system is characterized such that:

  • each appliance of the firewall system stores a local security policy comprising the at least one common global security rule, a list of the members of the community as well as of their state of connection, and a list of services offered locally;

    each appliance comprising a filter for messages destined for and originating from a network to which each appliance is connected; and

    each appliance calculates firewall rules used by the filter as a function of the local security policy.

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