3com Corporation

David E Richmond

Brant David Thomsen

Barani Subbiah

Peter M Rigstad

John Y Yoon

Mark Farahar

Vered Maor Semel

Earl Bryner

A system for providing security in a computing network. The system has a server for distributing policies to be implemented by firewall devices in the network. The firewall devices provide hardware implemented firewalls to communication devices making network connections. The system has logic to allow a connection to be made to the network via a communication device at a node provided the firewall device is at that node. Therefore, the firewall device must be in the system for a connection to be established via the communication device. Additionally, the system is configured to cause data transferred by the communication device to be processed by the firewall.

System for providing firewall capabilities to a communication device

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Kearns, UT, United States of America

David E Richmond