Patent 7970899 was granted and assigned to Barracuda Networks on June, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
There are methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for defining a policy including a set of rules for a packet forwarding device by receiving information sufficient to enable a first rule related to one of security or traffic management to be defined, and based on the received information, enabling a corresponding second rule related to the other one of security or traffic management to be defined.