US 12,224,986 B2
System and method for firewall policy rule management
Hongliang Wang, Singapore (SG); Jack Suzuki, Tokyo (JP); Jun Wu, Shanghai (CN); and Rongfeng Zhou, Singapore (SG)
Assigned to Morgan Stanley Services Group Inc., New York, NY (US)
Filed by Morgan Stanley Services Group Inc., New York, NY (US)
Filed on Sep. 5, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/461,417.
Application 18/461,417 is a continuation of application No. 18/344,274, filed on Jun. 29, 2023, abandoned.
Prior Publication US 2025/0007883 A1, Jan. 2, 2025
Int. Cl. H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 63/0263 (2013.01) [H04L 63/0236 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for updating network policies, the method comprising:
determining, from a set of hosts, a subset of hosts to have network policies updated;
for each host in the subset of hosts, a calculator service among a plurality of calculator services determining a set of policies relevant to the host, the policies relevant to the host indexed with the hostname for the host;
wherein determining a set of policies relevant to a host comprises:
a calculator service from the plurality of calculator services receiving, from a database, a set of policies relevant to the host and producing a file with the set of policies relevant to the host, the calculator services operating at overlapping time periods, the plurality of calculator services producing a plurality of files; and
for each of the subset of hosts, installing, using a process different from a calculator service, from the file with the set of policies relevant to the host, the set of policies relevant to the host.