Patent ID: 7328451

Claim:
A system for providing network-based firewall policy configuration and facilitation associated with a firewall, the system comprising: a memory device for storing a program for providing the network-based firewall policy configuration and facilitation associated with the firewall; and a processor, functionally coupled to the memory device, the processor being responsive to computer-executable instructions contained in the program and operative to: receive a first request to add an application not currently supported by a user's firewall policy, generate a time window during which a user can run the application, receive a firewall modification request to modify the user's firewall policy to allow the application, determine whether the application includes one or more questionable packets, and if the application is determined to include one or more questionable packets, modify the user's firewall policy to allow packets associated with the application determined not to be questionable to pass through the firewall unblocked and exclude the one or more questionable packets associated with the application from modification of the user's firewall policy such that the one or more questionable packets are blocked from passing through the firewall.