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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 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);
Ryan Tadashi Nakawatase, San Diego, CA (US);
Thomas Paul Walpole, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Stephen J. Ritter, Solana Beach, 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);
Ryan Tadashi Nakawatase, San Diego, CA (US);
Thomas Paul Walpole, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Stephen J. Ritter, Solana Beach, 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 generating network policies and configuring audits of the data communications network. The compliance server presents a graphical user interface (GUI) to describe the specific data gathering parameters, policies to be analyzed, and the schedule of analysis. One or more audit servers strategically deployed around the network employ heterogeneous data-gathering tools to gather information about the network in response to the configured audits, and transmit the gathered information to the compliance server. An audit repository stores the gathered information for use by the compliance server for security and regulatory policy assessment, network vulnerability analysis, report generation, and security improvement recommendations.