Patent ID: 7627891

Claim:
A network auditing system for auditing a data communications network, the system comprising: a first server configuring policies and audits of the data communications network; one or more second servers coupled to the first server, the one or more second servers gathering information about the network in response to the configured audits and transmitting the gathered information to the first server; and a data store coupled to the first server, the data store storing the gathered information transmitted by the one or more second servers, wherein the first server determines compliance with one of the configured network policies and independently makes a recommendation, in response to the determination, for modifying a network feature; wherein the recommendation is a task associated with the network feature; wherein a status of the recommended task is monitored; wherein completion of the recommended task is verified; wherein the first server provides, in response to the determination, a graphical representation of a security of the data communications network; wherein the recommendation is associated with a change to one of the configured network policies and logics for modeling an effect of the change to one of the configured network policies.