Patent ID: 8352998

Claim:
A device, comprising: first logic, implemented using hardware, to: receive, from a source device, information related to a state of the source device, identify, based on identification information associated with the source device and the received information, one or more policies associated with the source device, send the received information and the identified one or more policies to a module, where the module determines a compliance of the state of the source device with the identified one or more policies to produce a result, based on the received information and the identified one or more policies, receive the produced result from the module, where the result indicates whether the state of the source device complies with the identified one or more policies, and determine that the produced result is a valid result, where the valid result indicates that the module is operating in a predicted manner when the produced result complies with a module policy associated with the module; and second logic, implemented using hardware, to: receive the valid result from the first logic, and send an enforcement instruction to a destination device that implements the identified one or more policies with respect to the source device, based on the enforcement instruction, when the valid result indicates that the state of the source device complies with the identified one or more policies.