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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 17, 2025
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2022
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Balaji Sundararajan, Fremont, CA (US);
Venkatesh Nataraj, Union City, CA (US);
Kannan Kumar, Tracy, CA (US);
Padmanabha Nallur, Fremont, CA (US);
Abha Jain, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Kushal Patel, San Jose, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
This disclosure describes techniques and mechanisms for disclosure describes techniques and mechanisms for optimizing firewall enforcement. The techniques may implement a dynamic detection of Layer 7 processing at one end of the network, alleviating the need to enforce another layer 7 firewall inspection at the other end, thereby saving processing and network resources. The techniques enable firewalls and policies to be statically defined and located in one place.