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Abstract

A system and method for rapidly responding to triggering events or activities in a network system. The system includes a policy enforcement function, a policy manager function, and one or more network devices of the network system. The policy enforcement function includes one or more installed policy sets and/or policy enforcement rule sets suitably responsive to triggering events or activities. Upon detection of a trigger, the policy manager function analyzes the trigger and selects one or more appropriate policy sets and/or policy enforcement rule sets deemed to be responsive to the trigger. Each set has a unique rapid response identifier. The policy manager function signals for implementation of the one or more policy and/or rule sets, based on one or more rapid response identifiers, which are enforced through the policy enforcement function. The policy enforcement function may be a part of one or more of the one or more network infrastructure devices for implementing the policy change. The system and method enable rapid response to a detected trigger (which might be a manual input) by pre-installing responsive policy and/or rule sets first and then generating and transmitting the unique rapid response identifier(s) corresponding to one or more selected policy and/or rule sets for implementation. That is, the network device is already configured with a response through the pre-installed policy and/or rule sets. Responses may be implemented and/or removed gradually, and different network devices may be instructed to implement different policies in response to the same trigger and the same policy may be implemented with different policy enforcement rules on different devices, ports, or interfaces.

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