Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing function-parallel firewalls
are disclosed. According to one aspect, a function-parallel firewall includes a first firewall …

US8495725B2 - Methods, systems, and computer readable media for adaptive packet filtering
- Google Patents US8495725B2 - Methods, systems, and computer readable media for …

This paper introduces a new method to improve the performance of list oriented firewall
systems. Specifically, the paper addresses reordering a firewall rule set to minimize the …

Methods and systems for protecting a secured network are presented. For example, one or
more packet security gate ways may be associated with a security policy management …

Methods, systems, and computer program products for firewall policy optimization are
disclosed. According to one method, a firewall policy including an ordered list of firewall …

Aspects of this disclosure relate to filtering network data transfers. In some variations,
multiple packets may be received. A determination may be made that a portion of the …

A packet-filtering system configured to filter packets in accordance with packet-filtering rules
may receive data indicating network-threat indicators and may configure the packet-filtering …

A function-parallel network firewall is a scalable architecture that consists of multiple
firewalls. Rules are distributed across the array such that each firewall implements a portion …

Network firewalls remain the forefront defense for most computer systems. These critical
devices filter traffic by comparing arriving packets to a list of rules, or security policy, in a …

A computing system may identify packets received by a network device from a host located
in a first network and may generate log entries corresponding to the packets received by the …