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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 28, 2023
Filed:
Aug. 12, 2022
Netskope, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
David Tze-Si Wu, Fremont, CA (US);
Siying Yang, Cupertino, CA (US);
Krishna Narayanaswamy, Saratoga, CA (US);
Netskope, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
The technology disclosed relates to a transparent inline secure forwarder for policy enforcement on IoT devices. In particular, the technology disclosed provides a system. The system comprises a plurality of special-purpose devices on a network segment of a network. The system further comprises a default gateway of the network segment configured to receive outbound network traffic from special-purpose devices in the plurality of special-purpose devices. The system further comprises an inline secure forwarder configured to share an Internet Protocol (IP) address with the default gateway in a transparent mode to intercept the outbound network traffic prior to the default gateway receiving the outbound network traffic, and route the intercepted outbound network traffic to a policy enforcement point for policy enforcement.