ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,837, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Validation engine for firewall migration" was invented by Anish Palan (Mumbai, India), Anurag Verma (Karnataka, India) and Vinayak Manjunath (Karnataka, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Log data is gathered from the first firewall. The log data includes first firewall activity and actions responsive to past traffic. Production traffic can then be simulated by running the gathered log data of first firewall activity through the second firewall. The simulation results are analyzed to rate configuration settings including whether policy lookups are successfu...