Level 3 Communications, LLC

Centurylink Intellectual Property LLC

Kevin M Mcbride

Steven M Casey

Thomas Schwengler

Felipe Castro

Stephen Opferman

Peter Brecl

Paul Savill

Implementations include providing security services to workloads deployed across various types of network environments, such as public networks, private networks, hybrid networks, customer premise network environments, and the like, by redirecting traffic intended for the service device through a security environment of the first network. After application of the security features to the incoming traffic, the 'clean' traffic may be transmitted to the service device instantiated on the separate network via a tunnel. Redirection of incoming traffic to the security-providing first network may include correlating a network address of the service device to a reserved network address of a block of reserved addresses and updating a Domain Name Server (DNS) or other address resolving system with the reserved address. The return transmission tunnel may be established between the security environment and the network address of the service device.

End-to-end network security service for workloads across different network environments

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Denver, CO, United States of America

Kevin M Mcbride