Patent ID: 8516539
Filing Date: 2013-08-20
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of establishing a policy for a secure transaction in a network system, the method comprising: selecting a log record from among a plurality of log records, the selected log record including log components indicating a transaction log of an attempt to access a protected resource of a network system via a gateway, the attempt reported by the gateway in the log record, the network system including a predefined table with a plurality of records, each record including a distinguished name and a corresponding descriptive name, each distinguished name comprising at least one of: an Internet Protocol (IP) address and a port number of a respective network component, each descriptive name being user-defined to describe the respective network component to a user; automatically translating one or more distinguished names in at least one of the log components of the selected log record to one or more corresponding descriptive names, respectively, by cross referencing using the predefined table each respective descriptive name from a corresponding distinguished name in the at least one log component; establishing a policy attribute using the translated one or more descriptive names; creating a respective policy for the gateway based on the established policy attribute, the policy for controlling access to the protected resource; and presenting the policy which includes the translated one or more descriptive names for approval.