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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2010
Filed:
Aug. 08, 2005
Carey S. Nachenberg, Northridge, CA (US);
Alfred C. Hartmann, Round Rock, TX (US);
Jeffrey Wilhelm, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Frank Barajas, Redondo Beach, CA (US);
Carey S. Nachenberg, Northridge, CA (US);
Alfred C. Hartmann, Round Rock, TX (US);
Jeffrey Wilhelm, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Frank Barajas, Redondo Beach, CA (US);
Symantec Corporation, Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A firewall dynamically adapts to changes in a utility computing system. The utility computing system has multiple nodes that are dynamically provisioned in different roles. The different roles are best served by different security and/or Quality-of-Service (QoS) policies. The firewall selects and applies security and/or QoS policies to a node or group of nodes based on the roles provisioned to the node or group. The firewall detects when the provisioning of a node changes, and dynamically applies a new security and/or QoS policy to the node based on the new provisioning. The firewall thus provides adaptive network-level security and QoS functionality to a utility computing system.