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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 04, 2018
Applicant:
Sophos Limited, Abingdon, GB;
Inventors:
Moritz Daniel Grimm, Bruchsal, DE;
Daniel Stutz, Karlsruhe, DE;
Andrew J. Thomas, Oxfordshire, GB;
Kenneth D. Ray, Seattle, WA (US);
Assignee:
Sophos Limited, Abingdon, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 29/12 (2006.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/0209 (2013.01); H04L 43/10 (2013.01); H04L 61/2503 (2013.01); H04L 63/0227 (2013.01); H04L 63/145 (2013.01); H04L 63/20 (2013.01);
Abstract
Network devices within an enterprise are configured to pass out-of-band security information such as heartbeats, notifications of compromise, device identification information, and so forth between logical or physical network partitions such as subnets, routing domains, access points, and so forth. This technique can advantageously facilitate integrated management of endpoints across network boundaries that might otherwise interfere with the identification and management of specific devices.