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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 28, 2017
Forcepoint Llc, Austin, TX (US);
Forcepoint LLC, Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
A method, system, and computer-usable medium are disclosed for (a) responsive to communication of a client handshake from a client to a server for establishing encrypted communications between the client and the server: (i) holding open, by an intermediate verification system interfaced between the server and the client, the client handshake; and (ii) opening a connection between the intermediate verification system and the server via which the intermediate verification system issues a server verification handshake to the server; (b) responsive to issuance of the server verification handshake to the server, receiving a server certificate associated with the server by the intermediate verification system; (c) responsive to receipt of the server certificate, processing, by the intermediate verification system, the server certificate to determine an identity of the server; and (d) rendering, by the intermediate verification system, a security policy decision regarding traffic between the server and client based on the identity.