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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 06, 2019
Filed:
May. 18, 2016
Patrick Foxhoven, San Jose, CA (US);
John A. Chanak, Saratoga, CA (US);
William Fehring, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Denzil Wessels, San Jose, CA (US);
Purvi Desai, Cupertino, CA (US);
Manoj Apte, San Jose, CA (US);
Sudhindra P. Herle, Dallas, TX (US);
Patrick Foxhoven, San Jose, CA (US);
John A. Chanak, Saratoga, CA (US);
William Fehring, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Denzil Wessels, San Jose, CA (US);
Purvi Desai, Cupertino, CA (US);
Manoj Apte, San Jose, CA (US);
Sudhindra P. Herle, Dallas, TX (US);
Zscaler, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A virtual private access method implemented by a cloud system, includes receiving a request to access resources from a user device, wherein the resources are located in one of a public cloud and an enterprise network and the user device is remote therefrom on the Internet; forwarding the request to a central authority for a policy look up and for a determination of connection information to make an associated secure connection through the cloud system to the resources; receiving the connection information from the central authority responsive to an authorized policy look up; and creating secure tunnels between the user device and the resources based on the connection information.