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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2024
Filed:
Aug. 03, 2021
Palo Alto Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Matthew Kraning, San Francisco, CA (US);
Matthew Anderson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Peter Dickinson, Vallejo, CA (US);
Corey Fredericks, San Leandro, CA (US);
John Holliman, San Francisco, CA (US);
Andrew Seidel, San Francisco, CA (US);
Palo Alto Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A distributed system of scanning nodes is provided job portions to collectively scan network systems numbering in the tens of thousands and beyond million across the Internet. A scanning controller creates the job portions to fulfill a scanning request. The scanning controller creates the job portions based on availability of scanning nodes and a size of the scanning request (i.e., number of network addresses indicated by the request). The scanning controller creates each job portion with scanning instructions for an available scanning node to execute on a selected set of the network addresses indicated in the request, with each job portion having a different set of addresses to scan and being independently executable.