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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 02, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2018
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Michael Bender, Rye Brook, NY (US);
Rhonda L. Childress, Austin, TX (US);
Todd R. Palmer, Danbury, CT (US);
Helio L. Pinheiro E Mota, Ridgefield, CT (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Suspending communication to/from non-compliant servers through a firewall includes establishing a secure collection of compliance rules for security compliance, ascertaining, for each server of server(s) of an environment, respective software package(s) installed on the server, building a secure server and acceptable risk listing that indicates each of the server(s) and the software package(s) installed on each server, assigning and securely storing risk ratings for the server(s), comparing the assigned risk rating for a second server to an acceptable risk level indicated for a first server, and based on determining that the assigned risk rating for the second server exceeds the acceptable risk level, performing a rules modification to the firewall to enforce the compliance rules. The rules modification disables communication between the first server and the second server through the firewall.