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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 23, 2017
Applicant:
Palo Alto Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventor:
Anupam Bharali, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Palo Alto Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/20 (2013.01); G06F 21/6218 (2013.01); H04L 63/0263 (2013.01); H04L 63/102 (2013.01); H04L 63/0236 (2013.01);
Abstract
Using one or more externally defined objects to at least in part define a security policy is disclosed. In some embodiments, an external object list is obtained from an external list server, and a security policy comprising one or more rules based at least in part on one or more externally defined objects comprising the external object list and based at least in part on one or more locally defined objects is defined. The security policy is enforced with respect to one or more devices and periodically updated as the external object list is updated.