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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 06, 2024
Filed:
Dec. 05, 2023
Applicant:
Airgap Networks Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Ritesh R. Agrawal, San Jose, CA (US);
Vinay Adavi, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Satish M. Mohan, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignees:
Airgap Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Zscaler, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/46 (2006.01); H04L 47/125 (2022.01); H04L 67/1023 (2022.01); H04L 67/1036 (2022.01); H04L 69/40 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/4641 (2013.01); H04L 47/125 (2013.01); H04L 67/1023 (2013.01); H04L 67/1036 (2013.01); H04L 69/40 (2013.01);
Abstract
A technique to stop lateral movement of ransomware between endpoints in a VLAN is disclosed. A security appliance is set as the default gateway for intra-LAN communication by overwriting the DHCP responses. A high availability cluster of the gateways is utilized to distribute traffic and implement load balancing amongst the gateways.