At&t Intellectual Property I, LP

Gary R Flack

Adrian Cepleanu

Dimitri Krinos

William Lamont

Sumita Dutta

Rodney Stoltzfus

Mallikarjun Netrakanti

Paul Suntrup

Methods, computer-readable media and devices are disclosed for generating a security decision for network management traffic for a virtual provider edge router of a network. For example, a processor may receive a security policy of the network, receive an assignment to a virtual provider edge router in the network, receive network management traffic for the virtual provider edge router, generate a security decision for the network management traffic based upon the security policy, and perform a task in response to the security decision.

Virtual infrastructure perimeter regulator

A method and apparatus for providing an access control filter and/or a route filter in a network are disclosed. For example, the method receives a new filter rule or a modified filter rule associated with at least one of: a routing policy, or a security policy. The method creates or modifies one or more filter templates in accordance with the new filter rule or the modified filter rule. The method identifies one or more affected interfaces and audits the one or more affected interfaces. The method then generates one or more commands in accordance with the one or more filter templates if the auditing of the one or more affected interfaces is successful, and downloads filter content to one or more routers using the one or more commands.

Method and apparatus for providing routing and access control filters

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