Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Fabien J Royer

Pradeep Bahl

Rajesh K Dadhia

Eran Yariv

Mark Vayman

Philippe A Joubert

Among other things, one or more systems and/or methods for a network aware firewall are disclosed. A method comprises accessing a first network connection from a client computer system and determining whether the first network connection is a first network type or a second network type. The method further comprises dynamically modifying security parameters associated with a firewall local to the client computer system in response to determining whether the network connection is the first network type or the second network type.

Network aware firewall

A system and method for a network aware firewall is disclosed. The method includes accessing a first network connection from a client computer system and determining whether the first network connection is public or private. The method further includes dynamically modifying security parameters associated with a firewall local to the client computer system in response to determining whether the network connection is public or private.

A method and system for unified diagnosis of a network incident is provided. The unified diagnostics system is comprised of a monitoring tool, a network layer including a firewall, and a policy engine. The monitoring tool is invoked by a user in order to diagnose a network incident. The network layer and the policy engine generate various events that provide a history of their processing, and the monitoring tool collects these events. When the user attempts a network activity that fails, the network layer places an event notification in a notification queue. Then the monitoring tool analyzes the event notifications to identify events that are related to the same network incident. After analyzing the network incident and event information, the user can take the necessary action to correct the problem that caused the incident.

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Fabien J Royer