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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 27, 2013
Infoblox Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Jason A. Kirby, San Jose, CA (US);
John Dominic Belamaric, Bethesda, MD (US);
Francois J. Tur, Edgewater, MD (US);
Christophe Troillard, Drancy, FR;
Infoblox Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
In some embodiments, a security device controller (SDC) is provided. In some embodiments, a security device controller includes receiving a configuration policy in a vendor neutral language; and automatically configuring a plurality of security devices on a heterogeneous network based on the configuration policy. For example, the plurality of security devices can include physical, virtual, or software defined network (SDN) based routers and/or firewalls, and the heterogeneous network can include security devices from a plurality of different vendors.