Network Validation via Domain Specific Language
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current network security configurations require extensive IT specialist intervention, making them costly and inefficient for maintaining secure network communications, as they need to be uniquely tailored and updated to prevent unauthorized access, which is increasingly complex and prohibitive.
Innovation Solution
A network validation system that uses domain-specific language to express user intent, allowing for automated generation, analysis, and validation of network configurations, correcting errors, and providing guidance to ensure compliance with user-defined policies, thereby reducing the need for manual IT intervention.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If IT specialists manually configure each network object to reject or allow network traffic, then network security can be tailored to unique requirements, but the cost and complexity of maintaining secure communications increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables users to configure network security policies through an intuitive interface without requiring IT specialist intervention. Users can define their own network objects, assign CIDR blocks, and set traffic rules through a self-service configuration process that automatically translates into network object configurations, eliminating the need for manual IT specialist configuration while maintaining security tailored to unique requirements
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual mechanical configuration processes with automated software-based configuration. The system automatically translates user-friendly policy statements into network object configurations, automatically provisions network objects, and maintains configurations without human intervention, thereby reducing complexity while preserving security customization
2Reliability
If IT specialists manually update network configurations to prevent security breaches, then security can be maintained against sophisticated attacks, but the time and resources required for ongoing maintenance becomes prohibitive
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables users to independently update network security configurations through the self-service interface. Users can modify existing policies, add new network objects, and update traffic rules without requiring IT specialist involvement, allowing ongoing security maintenance to be performed by users themselves and eliminating the prohibitive time and resource costs associated with continuous manual maintenance
3Extent of automation
If domain specific language is used to express user intent for network configuration, then automation of configuration and validation is enabled, but the system must handle variances and errors within error thresholds
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary validation of user input against defined error thresholds before configuration is applied. The validation engine proactively identifies potential issues, variances, and errors in the domain specific language input and resolves them automatically or provides guidance, ensuring that only valid and accurate configurations are deployed while enabling full automation of the configuration process
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AI summary
A network validation system is described which may perform operations such as generating, analyzing, verifying, correcting, recommending, and deploying language, symbols, etc., such as domain specific language, configured to allow users to express their intent on the configuration and operation of a network, such as a cloud-based network. The network validation system may provide domain specific language that includes rules, statements, symbols, data, etc., configured to convey the intent of users on the configuration and operation of networks for purposes such as configuring and/or validating communication paths, testing or setting associated network object configurations, and may be employed to report violations in such configurations relative to user intent of the one or more users. The network validation system may also be employed to monitor such domain specific language and generate telemetry signaling, for example, that a rule has or has not been violated, actions a user may take, etc.