IP3 2025 – Firewall (Lot 15699)

This lot is generally related to a firewall with an application packet classifier that combines traditional packet filtering with advanced application-level inspection to provide network security and traffic management. Disclosed is a system for establishing rules in a firewall at an application level and identifying actions to occur between two devices for an industrial network. The system has a network device executing the firewall to receive message packets from a sending device and to inspect the packets to determine which action the sending device is requesting to perform. Also disclosed is that if the action relates to a rule in the database, the network device manages communications between the two devices until all message packets have been transmitted. The technology may be implemented in secure access control systems, data centers, cloud security systems, etc.