Cisco Technology, Inc.

Niranjan Koduri

Hari Shankar

Daryl Odnert

Haiyan Luo

Jianxin Wang

Trevor Highland

A policy is established comprising a condition having a multiphase attribute of a multiphase transaction. Phase specific policies are established for each phase in which the multiphase attribute may become known. The multiphase transaction is evaluated according to the phase specific policies at each phase of the multiphase transaction in which the multiphase attribute may become known until a policy decision of the policy is determined.

Early policy evaluation of multiphase attributes in high-performance firewalls

Traffic control techniques are provided for intercepting an initial message in a handshaking procedure for a secure communication between a first device and a second device at a proxy device. Identification information associated with the second device is extracted from the initial message. A policy is applied to communications between the first device and second device based on the identification information.

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Milpitas, CA, United States of America

Niranjan Koduri