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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2017
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 networking device policy or set of rules and/or transforming a networking device policy model into a set of comprehensible rules for presentation to a manager of the device. In one embodiment, the system and/or method includes converting one or more rules of the firewall device into a string of representative bits, creating a binary decision diagram from the converted rules of the firewall policy, transforming the binary decision diagram into a ternary tree diagram and analyzing the ternary tree diagram to condense the firewall policy into one or more rules comprehensible by a user of the firewall.