| CPC H04L 63/0263 (2013.01) [G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); H04L 63/0236 (2013.01); H04L 63/20 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45595 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |

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1. A method of automatically configuring a firewall, the method comprising:
receiving, by one or more processors, one or more flows between computing devices;
automatically detecting, by the one or more processors, hardware elements of a computing environment, wherein detecting the hardware elements of the computing environment comprises detecting the number of servers of a particular type within the computing environment;
automatically generating a firewall configuration based on the automatically detected hardware elements of the computing environment and the received one or more flows; and
automatically configuring the firewall within the computing environment with the firewall configuration.
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