Robert P Heintz

US Patent:

8001594, Aug 16, 2011

Filed:

Jun 10, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/170088

Inventors:

Robert Gordon Heintz - Manhattan Beach CA, US
Jeffrey A. Christy - Aliso Viejo CA, US

Assignee:

iPass, Inc. - Redwood Shores CA

International Classification:

G06F 12/14

US Classification:

726 22, 726 23

Abstract:

Methods and systems are disclosed for monitoring activity of a user on a network component, such as an end user computer, in a virtual private network for adherence to a security enforcement provision or policy utilized in the virtual private network. A method of determining whether a security provision in a computer network has been violated is described. It is determined whether the network component has violated, modified or circumvented a security enforcement provision of the computer network. If the detection is affirmative, the network component, such as an end user system, is modified in a manner in which the computer network operates at a level appropriate to the degree of the violation, modification, or circumvention of the security enforcement provision. If instructed to do so, a third party operating the virtual private network is notified of the violation and access to the network by the network component is restricted or terminated. A security enforcement distributed system consists of an agent module on the end user computer and a collector module for receiving data from the agent on a security server computer coupled to a data repository.