Palo Alto Networks, Inc.

Prashant Murlidhar Dave

Arivu Mani Ramasamy

Pankaj Bhagra

Srinivasan Komandoor Santhanam

Aniket Ghule

Techniques for load balancing secure network traffic are disclosed. A system, process, and/or computer program product for load balancing secure network traffic includes monitoring network traffic for one branch of a plurality of branches for an enterprise network, and splitting the network traffic of the one branch into a plurality of network segments based on a determination that the network traffic exceeds traffic capacity of at least one security processing node (SPN) of a plurality of SPNs using a network load balancer (NLB) in communication with a plurality of Network Processing Nodes (NPNs), the plurality of monitored branches being distributed to the plurality of SPNs via a plurality of tunnels.

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Fremont, CA, United States of America

Prashant Murlidhar Dave