Patent ID: 7478424
Filing Date: 2009-01-13
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A computerized method for propagation protection within a network, the method comprising: monitoring, by a transparent network appliance, data being transmitted from a first portion of the network to a second portion of the network through the network appliance; analyzing, by the transparent network appliance, the data to determine whether the data represents a threat to the network; transmitting, by the transparent network appliance, the data to the second portion of the network if the data does not represent a threat to the network or preventing transmission of the data to the second portion of the network if the data represents a threat to the network and transmitting, by the transparent network appliance, the data between the first portion of the network and the second portion of the network upon a failed or powerless condition of the transparent network appliance; and establishing, by the transparent network appliance, one or more connection statistics on the data from the first portion of the network to the second portion of the network wherein the one or more connection statistics include at least one connection statistic not dependent on a threat.