Systems and methods for context-aware network message filtering

Abstract

In an example, a non-transitory machine-readable medium has instructions, which, when executed by a processor of a machine, cause the machine to perform operations including: (i) receiving a plurality of network messages transmitted within a communication network, (ii) analyzing the network messages to determine network traffic information, and (iii) determining, based on the network traffic information, a current system context from among a plurality of system contexts. Each system context indicates a respective aggregate status of devices in the communication network. The operations also include (iv) selecting, based on the current system context, a set of filtering rules from among a plurality of sets of filtering rules, (v) applying the selected set of filtering rules to the network messages to determine a subset of network messages that are acceptable for the current system context, and (vi) forwarding each network message of the subset to a destination of the network message.