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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2009
Filed:
Feb. 13, 2004
John Leslie Williams, San Diego, CA (US);
Brian Costello, Los Angeles, CA (US);
John Patrick Ravenel, Escondido, CA (US);
John Payne, Newport Beach, CA (US);
Stephen J. Ritter, Solana Beach, CA (US);
Ryan Tadashi Nakawatase, San Diego, CA (US);
John Pelly, La Jolla, CA (US);
M. Celeste Rutherford, Del Mar, CA (US);
John Leslie Williams, San Diego, CA (US);
Brian Costello, Los Angeles, CA (US);
John Patrick Ravenel, Escondido, CA (US);
John Payne, Newport Beach, CA (US);
Stephen J. Ritter, Solana Beach, CA (US);
Ryan Tadashi Nakawatase, San Diego, CA (US);
John Pelly, La Jolla, CA (US);
M. Celeste Rutherford, Del Mar, CA (US);
Preventsys, Inc., Carlsbad, CA (US);
Abstract
A prevention-based network auditing system includes a central compliance server storing both natural language policy documents and machine-processable policy rules in an audit repository. The compliance server provides a client-side user interface allowing a user to easily generate a machine-auditable policy by selecting/generating a natural language policy source document, and linking the applicable machine-processable policy rules to the applicable portions of the source document. The selected machine-processable policy rules are then applied to information gathered about the network during a scheduled network audit session for efficiently and systematically determining whether policy violations and/or vulnerabilities exist.