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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 31, 2016
Shieldx Networks, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Ratinder Paul Singh Ahuja, Saratoga, CA (US);
Manuel Nedbal, Santa Clara, CA (US);
ShieldX Networks, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems, methods, and apparatuses enable an interface microservice to intercept and filter network traffic generated by virtual machines (VMs) and routed by a virtual switch (vSwitch). A vSwitch receiving network packets from the VMs is configured to route network packets to the interface microservice via a generated VLAN trunk. The interface microservice can retrieve and apply stored packet filters to the network packets intercepted by the microservice. If an intercepted network packet matches any of the applied packet filters, the interface microservice can perform various security operations, send the network packets to another microservice for security processing, or perform any other operations. For network packets which do not match a packet filter, the interface microservice forwards the packets to the originally intended destination.