Cisco Technology, Inc.

Kannan Kumar

Brian Eliot Weis

Balaji Sundararajan

Laxmikantha Reddy Ponnuru

Arul Murugan Manickam

Michael David Tracy

Venkatesh Nataraj

Hamzah Kardame

Rashmikant B Shah

Manoj Kumar Nayak

Saravanan Radhakrishnan

Kushal A Patel

Padmanabha Nallur

Gowri Mahendran Lingam Chandramohan

Mahalakshmi Rajaram

Vishnuprasad Raghavan

Abha Jain

Faizan Amjad Mohammed

Ramana Babu Polamarasetti

This disclosure describes techniques for orchestrating implementation of a security solution among network devices. The techniques include determining capabilities of routers of the network and capabilities of a cloud security service to perform security features of a security solution. Based at least in part on the capabilities, the techniques include configuring a router of the network to execute a first subset of the security features on data traffic of the network, and configuring the cloud security service to execute a second subset of the security features on the data traffic. The techniques may also include causing the security solution to be presented to a security administrator via a display, the display providing representations of the first subset and the second subset of the security features.

Security solution orchestration

This disclosure describes techniques and mechanisms for disclosure describes techniques and mechanisms for optimizing firewall enforcement. The techniques may implement a dynamic detection of Layer 7 processing at one end of the network, alleviating the need to enforce another layer 7 firewall inspection at the other end, thereby saving processing and network resources. The techniques enable firewalls and policies to be statically defined and located in one place.

Service optimization in networks and cloud interconnects

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, by a first node of a node cluster in a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN), traffic from a wide area network (WAN), assigning, by the first node of the node cluster, flow ownership of the traffic to the first node, and communicating, by the first node of the node cluster, the traffic to a local area network (LAN). The method also includes receiving, by the first node of the node cluster, return traffic from a second node of the node cluster and detecting, by the first node of the node cluster, a diversion of the return traffic. The method further includes relinquishing, by the first node of the node cluster, the flow ownership and assigning, by the first node of the node cluster, the flow ownership to the second node of the node cluster.

Systems and methods for asymmetrical peer forwarding in an SD-WAN environment

Techniques for user identity-based security policy enforcement. The techniques may include sending, to an edge device associated with a network, a networking policy associated with a user. The techniques may also include receiving, from an identity provider, an IP address associated with the user. Additionally, the techniques may include sending, to the edge device, an indication to associate the IP address with the user such that the edge device applies the networking policy to packets that include the IP address.

Identity-based policy enforcement in wide area networks

In one embodiment, a network controller for a computer network receives details of a provisioned device and policy requirements for the provisioned device. The network controller may then determine, based on the details and policy requirements for the provisioned device, a plurality of network devices that the provisioned device is configured to communicate through, and may then translate the details and policy requirements for the provisioned device into a plurality of network-device-specific policies, each respective network-device-specific policy corresponding to one of the plurality of network devices that the provisioned device is configured to communicate through. As such, the network controller may then transmit a respective network-device-specific policy of the plurality of network-device-specific policies to the plurality of network devices that the provisioned device is configured to communicate through.

Dynamic network and security policy for IoT devices

In one embodiment, an authorized signing authority server receives an authenticity request from a security registrar to vouch for authenticity of a particular device. Based on receiving the authenticity request, the authorized signing authority server may then determine an authenticity state of the particular device, and may also request a device provisioning file for the particular device from a device provisioning server, the device provisioning file defining one or more network security policies for the particular device. Upon receiving the device provisioning file from the device provisioning server, the authorized signing authority server may then return the authenticity state and the device provisioning file for the particular device to the security registrar, causing the security registrar to complete authentication of the particular device based on the authenticity state and the device provisioning file.

Zero-touch IoT device provisioning

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Kannan Kumar