Network policy management and effectiveness system

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2011-03-29

2011-03-29

Barron, Jr., Gilberto (Department: 2432)

Information security

Policy

C726S022000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07917938

ABSTRACT:
The Present Invention discloses a method and apparatus for maintaining policy compliance on a computer network. A system in accordance with the principles of the Present Invention performs the steps of electronically monitoring network user compliance with a network security policy stored in a database, electronically evaluating network security policy compliance based on network user compliance and electronically undertaking a network policy compliance action in response to network security policy non-compliance. The network policy compliance actions may include automatically implementing a different network security policy selected from network security policies stored in the database, generating policy effectiveness reports and providing a retraining module to network users.

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