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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2024
Filed:
Aug. 06, 2021
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Jerome Henry, Pittsboro, NC (US);
Robert Edgar Barton, Richmond, CA;
Elango Ganesan, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Flemming Stig Andreasen, Marlboro, NJ (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method includes determining a corresponding level of a security model associated with each device of a plurality of devices connected to a network, each level of the security model having a corresponding tag; applying, to each of the plurality of devices, the corresponding tag based on the corresponding level of the security model with which each of the plurality of devices are associated; receiving, over a network connection, network traffic from at least one of the plurality of devices and the corresponding tag; analyzing the corresponding tag associated with the network traffic; determining a destination for the network traffic; applying one or more security measures to the network traffic based on the corresponding tag for the at least one device and a corresponding tag of the destination for the network traffic; and sending the network traffic to the destination with the corresponding tag of the destination.