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Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 2024

Filed:

Sep. 13, 2022
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Supreeth Hosur Nagesh Rao, Cupertino, CA (US);

Navindra Yadav, Cupertino, CA (US);

Tapan Shrikrishna Patwardhan, Mountain View, CA (US);

Umamaheswaran Arumugam, San Jose, CA (US);

Darshan Shrinath Purandare, Fremont, CA (US);

Aiyesha Ma, San Francisco, CA (US);

Hongyang Zhang, Mountain View, CA (US);

Kai Zhu, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/40 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/20 (2013.01); H04L 63/101 (2013.01); H04L 63/145 (2013.01); H04L 63/1416 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present disclosure relates to securing workloads of a network by identifying compromised elements in communication with the network and preventing their access to network resources. In one aspect, a method includes monitoring network traffic at network elements of a network; detecting a compromised element in communication with one or more of the network elements, the compromised element being associated with at least one network threat; and based on a defined network policy, applying one of a number of different access prevention schemes to the compromised element to prevent access to the network by the compromised element.


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