Patent ID: 7114083

Claim:
A system for securing an enterprise communications network, comprising: a first firewall for accepting a service request from a client and permitting access to one or more first preselected addresses in compliance with a first set of filtering rules; a secure web server, located at one of the first preselected addresses, for establishing a session with the client and receiving the service request via the first firewall, wherein said session is associated with a session identifier encapsulated in a cookie that is generated from a separate server; a second firewall in communication with the secure web server for accepting the service request from the secure web server and permitting access to one or more second preselected addresses in compliance with a second set of filtering rules; and a dispatcher server, located at one of the second preselected addresses, for receiving the secure request via the second firewall and, in response, dispatching the service request to a proxy service for applying system resources of the enterprise communication network responsive to the service request.