Method and apparatus for automatic risk assessment of a firewall configuration

摘要

A method and apparatus for Automatic Risk Assessment of a Firewall Configuration facilitates the automatic generation of a risk assessment of a given firewall configuration. The method scans the firewall analyzer report, before the human user does, and flag the Configuration errors. Each found mis-configuration is called a risk item. The report is analyzed according a Knowledge Base of known risk items. The method further filters duplicate risk item which are trigger by different rules.