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Date of Patent:
Nov. 01, 2022

Filed:

Jan. 28, 2020
Applicant:

Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Antonio Trifilo, Pully, CH;

Maria Carpen Amarie, Yverdon-les-Bains, CH;

Thomas Vegas, Gland, CH;

Anirban Karmakar, Ecublens, CH;

Shree N. Murthy, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/00 (2006.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01); H04L 47/70 (2022.01); H04L 61/4511 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/20 (2013.01); H04L 47/82 (2013.01); H04L 61/4511 (2022.05); H04L 63/10 (2013.01);
Abstract

The use of device context in applying security policies is provided by receiving a Domain Name Service (DNS) query for a network resource from a user device (UD) at a DNS analysis server, the DNS query including a functional label describing a context of the UD; analyzing the DNS query to determine whether the UD is permitted to access the network resource based on the functional label; and in response to the functional label indicating that the UD is not permitted to access the network resource, transmitting a block page to the UD. The functional label can be added to the DNS query by a Mobile Device Management application on the UD, a router associated with the UD, or an enterprise server. Contexts for previously blocked DNS queries can be aggregated to identify UDs sharing at least one value with the previously blocked DNS queries as security compromised devices.


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