Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Brian R Hall

Debi P Mishra

Mauktik Gandhi

Michael B Mitchell

Vikram Kakumani

Tatiana Shubin

Steven C Yee

Reputation based firewall policy techniques are described, in which, a computer-implemented method may be employed to collect data from a plurality of clients regarding an application attempting to access a network via the clients. The collected data may be exposed to a community of users to obtain feedback on the application which is used to produce a reputation for the application. The reputation may then be provided to the plurality of clients to determine whether to permit the attempt by the application.

Reputation driven firewall

Automated client device management techniques are described. In an implementation, a method is described which includes collecting heuristic data from a plurality of client device over a network. The heuristic data describes a plurality of health considerations that include reliability, performance and security of the plurality of client devices. The collecting of the heuristic data is performed periodically and automatically without intervention from users of the plurality of client devices. A remedy is generated corresponding to an issue identified from the heuristic data regarding at least one of the health considerations that cures the issue and addresses one or more other health considerations indicated in the heuristic data.

Automated client device management

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Brian R Hall