Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Distribution of stateless security functions
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Application No.: US16985664Application Date: 2020-08-05
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Publication No.: US11483290B2Publication Date: 2022-10-25
- Inventor: Saravanan Radhakrishnan , Anand Oswal , Ashwin Kumar , Paul Wayne Bigbee , Darrin Joseph Miller
- Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Agency: Polsinelli
- Main IPC: H04L29/06
- IPC: H04L29/06 ; H04L9/40

Abstract:
Systems and methods are provided for receiving, at a network device, a first set of rules from a security controller of an enterprise network, the first set of rules being different from a second set of rules provided to a firewall by the security controller, implementing, at the network device, the first set of rules received from the security controller, generating, at the network device, a first log including metadata based on the first set of rules, the first log being generated on a per flow basis, notifying, at the network device, a NetFlow of the first log including the metadata of the first set of rules, and providing, from the network device, the first log to a cloud-log store by the NetFlow of the network device, the cloud-log store receiving the first log from the network device and a second log from the firewall.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210119971A1 DISTRIBUTION OF STATELESS SECURITY FUNCTIONS Public/Granted day:2021-04-22
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