A unified threat management system is provided with a uniform relational rules model. The unified relational rules model provides for the sub-setting of rules and the ability to derive a result based partially from previous security measurements. The sharing of a security check from one security implementation to another using an object-oriented methodology is facilitated. Security policy is divided into specific security features that result in a security hierarchy. The security features may be considered to be listed sequentially, from bottom to top, and form a relationship with one another. These relationships are used to build a current security measure upon a previous security measure and may be used as a pre-cursor when marshalling data content to be validated.

 
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