Cisco Technology, Inc.

Blackberry Corporation

Umesh Kumar Miglani

Yedidya Dotan

Denis Knjazihhin

Sachin Vasant

Daniel Hollingshead

Zachary D Siswick

David Andrew Brown

Maria Christina Nathalie Freyhult

Doron Levari

Darsono Sutedja

Jason M Perry

Joe Lawrence

Karyll Catubig

Maria Christina N Freyhult

A network management entity is configured to communicate with one or more network security devices. Each network security device is configured to store in a respective event queue an event for each attempt to access a network accessible destination through the security device. Each event indicates the destination of the attempted access. The management entity periodically collects from the event queues the stored events so that less that all of the events stored in the event queues over a given time period are collected. The management entity determines, based on the collected events, top destinations as the destinations that occur most frequently in the collected events. The management entity determines, based on the collected events, bottom destinations as the destinations that occur least frequently in the collected events. The management entity generates for display indications of the top destinations and generates for display indications of the bottom destinations.

Providing network behavior visibility based on events logged by network security devices

A management entity communicates over a network with devices on which security rules are configured to control network access. Data that indicates a hit count for each security rule across the devices is repeatedly collected from the devices. The indicated hit counts for each security rule are aggregated over different repeating time intervals to produce repeatedly aggregated hit counts for respective ones of the different repeating time intervals. The security rules are generated for display on a user interface screen as selectable options. Responsive to a selection of one of the security rules, a selected security rule and most recently aggregated hit counts for the different repeating time intervals for the selected security rule are generated for concurrent display on the user interface screen. The display of the most recently aggregated hit counts for the selected security rule is updated as time progresses.

Security policy efficacy visualization

Presented herein are techniques for creating a policy block comprised of a group of lines of rules/statements across configuration files for network devices. An algorithm is provided that determines when multiple policies are to be merged together into one policy. In one embodiment, data is uploaded from a network that includes a plurality of network devices. The data represents policy rules configured on the plurality of network devices. The data representing the policy rules is compared for similarities in order to group together policy rules based on their similarities. Data is stored representing a plurality of clusters, each cluster representing a group of policy rules that have been grouped together. One or more configuration policies are generated to be applied across the plurality of network devices using the data representing each of the plurality of clusters, while maintaining context of policy rule processing.

Policy block creation with context-sensitive policy line classification

In a computer implemented method, selectable device icons that represent respective network security devices are generated for display. Responsive to a selection of one of the device icons, selectable interface icons that represent respective network interfaces used by the network security device represented by the selected device icon are generated for display. Responsive to a selection of one of the interface icons, selectable policy icons that represent respective security polices applied to the network interface represented by the selected interface icon are generated for display. Responsive to a selection of one of the policy icons, selectable object group icons that represent respective groups of security rule objects used in the network security policy represented by the selected policy icon are generated for display.

Object-relation user interface for viewing security configurations of network security devices

A method, electronic device, and device-readable medium are provided for implementing quick actions or additional actions in a unified inbox context. A number of communication event listings are displayed in either a first mode or a second mode. In the first mode, at least one user interface element for invoking a first operation is displayed for each communication event listing. In the second mode, at least one other user interface element for invoking a further operation is included in the communication event listing in addition to a user interface element for invoking the first operation. The user can selectively invoke the second mode from the first mode.

System, method and device-readable medium for communication event interaction within a unified event view

According to embodiments described in the specification, a method, system and apparatus for managing messages at a mobile electronic device is provided. The method comprises: receiving a message and storing the message in a memory of the mobile electronic device; determining, at a processor of the mobile electronic device, if the message passes at least one filter criterion maintained in the memory, the filter criterion for use in generating a primary message view; when the message does not pass the filter criterion, adding a device-side label to the message; generating the primary message view according to the filter criterion; detecting an interaction with the message; and in response to detecting the interaction, automatically removing the device-side label from the message.

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North Chelmsford, MA, United States of America

Umesh Kumar Miglani