US Patent 11936621 Firewall drift monitoring and detection

The present application relates to embodiments for detecting firewall drift. In some embodiments, a first set of firewall rules of a first firewall for a first instance of a distributed application, a second set of firewall rules of a second firewall for a second instance of the distributed application, and a mapping of IP addresses to identifiers of services from amongst a first set of services of the first instance and a second set of services of the second instance may be obtained. First connectivity data and second connectivity data may be generated indicating, for each of IP address associated with the first and second set of firewall rules, a respective port number over which communications between a respective IP address are transmitted, and generating comparison data indicating whether firewall drift is detected based on a comparison of the first connectivity data and the second connectivity data.