Apparatus for monitoring network traffic

Information security – Access control or authentication – Network

Reexamination Certificate

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C726S022000, C726S023000, C726S024000

Reexamination Certificate

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07849502

ABSTRACT:
A data processing apparatus can perform HTTP traffic monitoring and filtering of HTTP requests from clients and responses from servers. Example apparatus comprises a processor, a first network interface to a protected network, a second network interface to an external network, and a traffic monitor having an address-domain name database, a firewall rules manager, and a DNS snooper. The traffic monitor accesses a blacklist and can perform receiving, from a client computer, a request to access a resource in the external network; blocking the request to the resource when a user agent of the client is in the blacklist as malicious software or when a file extension in a response to the request is in the blacklist; requesting, from a web reputation service, and receiving a reputation score indicating a reputation of the resource; blocking sending the request to the resource when the reputation is below a specified threshold.

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U.S. Appl. No. 11/804,017, filed May 15, 2007, Final Office Action, mailed Jun. 11, 2010.

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