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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 17, 2022
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Claudio Desanti, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
David Black, Acton, MA (US);
DELL PRODUCTS L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
Two main methods exist today to enforce access control in a network fabric: soft zoning and hard zoning. However, each of these approaches has some significant drawbacks. Accordingly, presented herein are new and improved systems and methods to perform access control enforcement, which is stronger than soft zoning, and does not need to interact with the fabric switches, as required by hard zoning. In one or more embodiments, an authentication verification entity (AVE) is provided with access control or authorization information. In one or more embodiments, the AVE uses this information to cause an authentication verification failure for connections between hosts and subsystems that are not allowed according to configurations (e.g., zoning configurations) of the fabric.