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Automatically validating enterprise firewall rules and provisioning firewall rules in computer systems

  • US 9,843,560 B2
  • Filed: 09/11/2015
  • Issued: 12/12/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/11/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method of automatically validating a firewall rule for provisioning in a computer system, comprising executing on one or more computer processors:

  • receiving from a user device one or more firewall rules for provisioning on a server;

    determining based on predefined firewall rules, whether to approve one or more of the firewall rules and deny one or more of the firewall rules;

    responsive to determining that one or more of the firewall rules are denied, performing additional validation of one or more of the firewall rules that are denied;

    updating a firewall rule learning engine with a result of the additional validation, wherein based on the result of the additional validation, the firewall rule learning engine updates the predefined firewall rules;

    provisioning one or more of the firewall rules that are approved on the server; and

    opening the one or more of the firewall rules between a source server and a target server,wherein one or more of the computer processors automatically secure connections between the source server and the target server.

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