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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2020
Filed:
Jul. 10, 2017
Zscaler, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Patrick Foxhoven, San Jose, CA (US);
John Chanak, Saratoga, CA (US);
William Fehring, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Zscaler, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A cloud-based security method using Domain Name System (DNS) includes receiving a request from a user device at a DNS server; performing a security check on the request based on a policy look up associated with the user device; responsive to the policy look up, performing a DNS security check on the request; and responsive to the DNS security check, performing one of allowing the request to the Internet; blocking the request based on the policy; and providing the request to inline inspection based on the policy, wherein the request is one of allowed to the Internet or blocked based on the inline inspection.