US 12,309,119 B2
Web application firewall centralized management
Rahul Isola, Cornelius, NC (US); and Mario Alberto Calderon, Durham, NC (US)
Assigned to Bank of America Corporation, Charlotte, NC (US)
Filed by Bank of America Corporation, Charlotte, NC (US)
Filed on Oct. 31, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/977,147.
Prior Publication US 2024/0146692 A1, May 2, 2024
Int. Cl. H04L 9/40 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 63/0263 (2013.01) 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A web application firewall centralized management process comprising the steps of:
providing, in data centers containing servers executing web applications, network-security devices having network interfaces;
executing, in the network-security devices, web application firewalls for the web applications;
load-balancing, by the network-security devices across the servers, the web applications;
accessing, by a management processor through bridges coupled the network interfaces, the network-security devices;
retrieving, by the management processor, an inventory of the web application firewalls;
mapping, by the management processor based on configuration of the bridges, application parameters to management system parameters;
retrieving, by the management processor through the bridges coupled to the network interfaces, metadata for policies for the web application firewalls in the network-security devices;
storing, by the management processor in management memory, the metadata for the policies;
assigning, by the management processor, the policies and the web application firewalls to policy-name device-pair policy groups;
scanning, by the management processor through the bridges coupled to the network interfaces, a portion of said metadata for said policies to detect any changes in the policies; and
synchronizing, by the management processor, said policy groups, said policy-name device-pair policies and said web application firewalls based on said changes.