Patents Assigned to Axcelerant, Inc.
  • Publication number: 20030229808
    Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for monitoring activity of a user on a network component, such as an end user computer, in a virtual private network for adherence to a security enforcement provision or policy utilized in the virtual private network. A method of determining whether a security provision in a computer network has been violated is described. It is determined whether the network component has violated, modified or circumvented a security enforcement provision of the computer network. If the detection is affirmative, the network component, such as an end user system, is modified in a manner in which the computer network operates at a level appropriate to the degree of the violation, modification, or circumvention of the security enforcement provision. If instructed to do so, a third party operating the virtual private network is notified of the violation and access to the network by the network component is restricted or terminated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2002
    Publication date: December 11, 2003
    Applicant: Axcelerant, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Gordon Heintz, Jeffrey A. Christy