Trusted service access with dynamic security infrastructure configuration

The increasing complexity of IT infrastructures and the integration of mobile end-user devices requires more sophisticated approaches in network perimeter protection. Currently, the state of the art in network safeguarding is represented by firewalls restricting and filtering the traffic entering and leaving the network. In most cases firewalls are static with respect to their configuration. This publication aims to introduce a generic approach that will enable dynamic configuration to these firewalls. Such a dynamic change allows for fine-grained policies supporting elaborate rules concerning the service usage within a network infrastructure.