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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2014
Firemon, Llc, Overland Park, KS (US);
Patrick G. Clark, Overland Park, KS (US);
Jody Brazil, Shawnee, KS (US);
FireMon, LLC, Overland Park, KS (US);
Abstract
Implementations of the present disclosure involve a system and/or method for modeling a firewall function and operation such that software based analysis and other formal analysis methods may be used with the model. In one embodiment, the system and/or method includes modeling the function of a firewall as a set of links, ingress/egress interfaces, interface switches and behaviors chained together into a spanning graph. The spanning graph may then be used in conjunction with data structures, such as a Firewall Policy Diagram, to illustrate pathways through a network for a communication packet. This system and/or method allows for the understanding of a firewall policy such that the policy can be replicated among various firewalls in the network at issue.