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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 29, 2019
Mcafee, Llc, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Bikram Kumar Gupta, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ananth Raman, San Jose, CA (US);
Manuel Nedbal, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Elanthiraiyan A. Anbalagan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
McAfee, LLC, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Example firewalls disclosed herein populate a first dynamic object of a firewall rule with first information to identify a first updateable set of devices that satisfy a first one of a plurality of conditions associated with the firewall rule, the first information based on first data obtained from an appliance that monitors communication traffic in at least a portion of a network. Disclosed example firewalls also populate a second dynamic object of the firewall rule with second information to identify a second updateable set of devices that satisfy a second one of the conditions associated with the firewall rule, the second information based on second data obtained from an external data source. Disclosed example firewalls further determine, based on the first dynamic object and the second dynamic object, whether the firewall rule is to apply to first network traffic associated with a first device in communication with the network.