Patent ID: 8769068

Claim:
A system for policy based management, comprising: one or more policy managers, each operable on a processor and performing policy decision-making and policy enforcement using one or more policies; one or more containers, each container related to an application and each container having one policy manager of the one or more policy managers; one or more nodes, each node having an infrastructure comprising at least a processor, and at least one container of the one or more containers, the one or more nodes operable on a secure mobile ad-hoc network (MANET); and communication domains associating the one or more containers having a same application, the containers being in different nodes, the associated containers maintained by the communication domains on the secure MANET; each said policy manager comprising: a policy decision point evaluating stored policies when triggered by a request or an event; a policy enforcement point receiving a decision from the policy decision point and enforcing the decision; a policy repository storing the policies used in the policy system; said policy decision point retrieving via a feedback loop information from the managed system when evaluating policies and automating behavior of the managed system; a policy user interface allowing policy authorities to create and modify policies; a conflict detection point detecting conflicts between a newly created or modified policy and an existing set of stored policies; and a policy distribution interface to securely distribute polies over a network.