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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 26, 2022
Filed:
Nov. 18, 2019
Forcepoint Llc, Austin, TX (US);
Jaakko Moller, Helsinki, FI;
Forcepoint LLC, Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
A method, system, and computer-usable medium are disclosed for: (i) communicating, from a client device to a security device via a metadata connection, metadata regarding a data connection to be established by the client device, the metadata comprising a connection identifier uniquely identifying the data connection; and (ii) communicating, from the client device to the security device via the data connection, network traffic comprising a packet that includes the connection identifier, such that the security device may use the connection identifier to index an entry associated with the metadata that the security device has stored in a metadata cache.