Patent ID: 7587751
Filing Date: 2009-09-08
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising the computer-implemented steps of: creating and storing, at an authentication server, a session list identifying communication sessions relating to supplicants that access a computer network through an access device; receiving a user input, at the authentication server, requesting performing posture validation for all the supplicants, wherein the user input comprises an event announcing an updated anti-virus policy that is received from an anti-virus system; determining a priority for performing posture validation for a particular supplicant of a plurality of supplicants identified in the session list; in response to the user input, determining a time value based on the priority for starting the posture validation for the particular supplicant identified in the session list, wherein the step of determining the time value further comprises the steps of: in response to the user input, generating, at the authentication server, and sending to the access device, a request to perform posture validation, repeating the steps of determining, generating and sending for all supplicants in the session list.