Mcafee, Inc.

Secure Computing Corporation

Spencer Minear

Paul Meyer

David Frederick Diehl

Richard C O'Brien

Raymond Lu

Terrence Mitchem

Irving Reid

A firewall cluster system comprises a first node operable to receive a connection in a firewall cluster having three or more nodes, monitor packets of the received connection and determining application state data associated with the connection from the monitored packets in the first node, and share application state data with at least another node in the firewall cluster.

Application state sharing in a firewall cluster

System and methods for connection processing with limited data leakage. The system records state associated with a connection request in a connection state engine, records state associated with a connection acknowledgement in the connection state engine, stores data sent after the connection acknowledgement in a buffer and determines, without a proxy, whether to allow or deny a connection as a function of the data stored in the buffer.

System and method for limiting data leakage in an application firewall

System and method for limiting data leakage

An inventive security framework for supporting kernel-based hypervisors within a computer system. The security framework includes a security master, one or more security modules and a security manager, wherein the security master and security modules execute in kernel space.

Security framework for supporting kernel-based hypervisors within a computing system

A security framework for wrapping standard, commercially-available software applications in order to limit the amount of potential damage that a successful attacker or corrupt program can cause. The security framework includes a security master that coordinates installation and removal of kernel-based security modules and that provides a means for managing these modules. The security module are loadable kernel modules that include security information for enforcing application-specific or resource-specific policies. The security module are easy to install and require no modification to the existing operating system or to the software applications that they are monitoring. The security framework has a number of potential applications, including protecting a computing system from malicious software downloaded via a web browser, for wrapping web servers and firewalls in order to limit possible compromise and for replicating file operations.

Security framework for dynamically wrapping software applications executing in a computing system

A firewall is used to achieve network separation within a computing system having a plurality of network interfaces. A plurality of regions is defined within the firewall and a set of policies is configured for each of the plurality of regions. The firewall restricts communication to and from each of the plurality of network interfaces in accordance with the set of policies configured for the one of the plurality of regions to which the one of the plurality of network interfaces has been assigned.

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