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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 24, 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 Pelly, La Jolla, CA (US);
Ryan Tadashi Nakawatase, San Diego, CA (US);
Thomas Paul Walpole, Carlsbad, CA (US);
John Leslie Williams, San Diego, CA (US);
Brian Costello, Los Angeles, CA (US);
John Patrick Ravenel, Escondido, CA (US);
John Pelly, La Jolla, CA (US);
Ryan Tadashi Nakawatase, San Diego, CA (US);
Thomas Paul Walpole, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Preventsys, Inc., Carlsbad, CA (US);
Abstract
A prevention-based network auditing system includes an audit repository storing network information gathered by a plurality of heterogeneous information sources. A semantic normalization module identifies semantic equivalencies in the gathered information, and generates a map listing for each fact gathered by an information source, an equivalent fact or set of facts gathered by each of the other information sources. A network policy is then uniformly applied to the information that is identified as being semantically equivalent.