Disney Enterprises, Inc.

Jeffrey Sol Mansukhani

Robert K Floyd, Iii

Mark G Cloud

Daniel Eric Ouellette

James Reed Philpott

Sankara Subramanyam

Esther M Betancourt

Various embodiments set forth systems and techniques for identifying issues associated with a domain name system (DNS) ecosystem. The techniques include receiving a first target domain name; identifying a plurality of DNS elements included in the DNS ecosystem that should be tested based on the first target domain name; performing one or more validation operations on the plurality of DNS elements based on the first target domain name to generate a first set of validation results; and identifying a first DNS issue associated with the first target domain name based on the first set of validation results.

Techniques for DNS ecosystem health checks

A firewall manager periodically accesses a set of servers to identify the various services currently active on each server. The firewall manager also periodically accesses a set of firewalls configured to protect those servers to identify various firewall rules implemented by those firewalls. The firewall manager then compares the services data with the rules data to identify any obsolete firewall rules that are (i) defined based on an IP address not currently allocated to any of the servers or (ii) defined based on a port of an active server that is not associated with any service running on server. Such rules are considered obsolete. Upon identifying any obsolete firewall rules, the firewall manager accesses the firewalls associated with those rules and then removes the obsolete rules.

Firewall rule remediation for improved network security and performance

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La Crescenta, CA, United States of America

Jeffrey Sol Mansukhani