CONTEXT BASED FIREWALL SERVICE FOR AGENTLESS MACHINES

    公开(公告)号:US20200014662A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-01-09

    申请号:US16027086

    申请日:2018-07-03

    Applicant: VMware, Inc.

    Abstract: A system and method for performing firewall operations on an edge service gateway virtual machine that monitors traffic for a network. The method includes detecting, from a directory service executing on a computing device, a login event on the computing device, obtaining, from the detected login event, login event information comprising an identifier that identifies a user associated with the login event, storing the login event information as one or more context attributes in an attribute table, and applying a firewall rule to a data message that corresponds to the one or more context attributes.

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