Patent ID: 6657956
Filing Date: 2003-12-02
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
A process for protecting accesses, through a network, to at least one application server, an access originating from a user station, using a multisession, multiport telecommunication protocol to establish an application session between the user station and an application server, said process comprising the steps of:interposing a security processor between the user station and the application server; transmitting, from the user station towards the application server, an access request for establishing an application session with the application server; establishing, between the user station and the security processor, a security session for running in parallel with the requested application session; defining a security script for the parallel security session among a plurality of scripts; providing the user station with access to the application server, under the control of the security processor running the parallel security session and using the defined security script, for establishing the requested application session in parallel with the security session; and cyclically initiating security sessions as security checks on the application session.