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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2024
Filed:
Jan. 25, 2021
Mcafee, Llc, San Jose, CA (US);
Bikram Kumar Gupta, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ananth Raman, San Jose, CA (US);
Manuel Nedbal, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Elanthiraiyan A. Anbalagan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
McAfee, LLC, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Example firewalls disclosed herein populate a first dynamic object of a firewall rule with first information to identify a first updateable set of devices that satisfy a first one of a plurality of conditions associated with the firewall rule, the first information based on first data obtained from an appliance that monitors communication traffic in at least a portion of a network. Disclosed example firewalls also populate a second dynamic object of the firewall rule with second information to identify a second updateable set of devices that satisfy a second one of the conditions associated with the firewall rule, the second information based on second data obtained from a data source different from the appliance. Disclosed example firewalls further apply, based on evaluation of the first dynamic object and the second dynamic object, the firewall rule to first network traffic associated with a first device in communication with the network.