System and method for automated policy audit and remediation management

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9094434-B2
Application number	US-201314010498-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 26, 2013
Priority date	Feb 14, 2003
Publication date	Jul 28, 2015
Grant date	Jul 28, 2015

Abstract

A prevention-based network auditing system includes a central compliance server providing a user interface allowing a user to schedule and configure a network audit. The configured audit is stored in an audit repository until its scheduled time. At such a time, the compliance server automatically invokes one or more audit servers to gather information about the network. The compliance server receives the gathered information and electronically applies a network policy to the information for determining compliance with the policy. A remediation task may be generated if the policy has been violated, and the task monitored until its completion.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media storing instructions that, when executed, cause a computing device to perform a method, the method comprising:
initiating a network audit;
testing a network policy prior to deployment of the network policy, wherein the network policy is tested against past network audit results;
providing one or more recommendations in response to the testing of the network policy, the one or more recommendations…

Assignees

• Mcafee Inc

Inventors

• Williams John Leslie
• Costello Brian
• Ravenel John Patrick
• Ritter Stephen J
• Pelly John
• Rutherford M Celeste
• Payne John

Classifications

• H04L41/0853 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L63/14 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L63/1408

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L41/0859

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L63/20

  Electricity · mapped topic