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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2019
Filed:
Nov. 29, 2016
Nicira, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jayant Jain, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Anirban Sengupta, Saratoga, CA (US);
Alok Tiagi, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jingmin Zhou, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Russell Lu, Palo Alto, CA (US);
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A computer system provides a method for identifying firewall rules to apply to a virtual machine based on detecting initiation of a new network connection from the virtual machine. An example method generally includes detecting initiation of communications on a network port by a virtual machine, identifying one or more applications executing on the virtual machine that initiated communications on the network port, identifying one or more firewall rules to apply to the virtual machine based, at least in part, on the identification of the one or more applications, determining a deviation between firewall rules applied to the virtual machine and the identified one or more firewall rules, and upon determining that a deviation exists between the firewall rules applied to the virtual machine and the identified one or more firewall rules, applying one or more rules corresponding to the determined deviation to the virtual machine.