Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Steven C Yee

Mauktik Gandhi

Michael B Mitchell

Vikram Kakumani

Tatiana Shubin

Brian R Hall

Reputation based firewall policy techniques are described, in which, a computer-implemented method may be employed to collect data from a plurality of clients regarding an application attempting to access a network via the clients. The collected data may be exposed to a community of users to obtain feedback on the application which is used to produce a reputation for the application. The reputation may then be provided to the plurality of clients to determine whether to permit the attempt by the application.

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Renton, WA, United States of America

Steven C Yee