Patents by Inventor Amaresh Shirsat

Amaresh Shirsat has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Systems and methods for automatically applying firewall policies within data center applications
    Patent number: 9438560
    Abstract: The disclosed method may include (1) identifying a data center application whose functionality is provided by a set of systems, (2) organizing, automatically by the computing device, the set of systems into one or more application model groups by, for each system in the set of systems, identifying an attribute of the system that is indicative of a security context under which the system should operate and assigning the system to an application model group for which the security context will be provided, and (3) for each application model group in the one or more application model groups, protecting the application model group by selecting a firewall configuration that will provide the security context for the application model group and by using the selected firewall configuration to protect the application model group. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: Symantec Corporation
    Inventors: Shubhabrata Mohanty, Amaresh Shirsat
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATICALLY APPLYING FIREWALL POLICIES WITHIN DATA CENTER APPLICATIONS
    Publication number: 20160191463
    Abstract: The disclosed method may include (1) identifying a data center application whose functionality is provided by a set of systems, (2) organizing, automatically by the computing device, the set of systems into one or more application model groups by, for each system in the set of systems, identifying an attribute of the system that is indicative of a security context under which the system should operate and assigning the system to an application model group for which the security context will be provided, and (3) for each application model group in the one or more application model groups, protecting the application model group by selecting a firewall configuration that will provide the security context for the application model group and by using the selected firewall configuration to protect the application model group. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2014
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventors: Shubhabrata Mohanty, Amaresh Shirsat