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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 15, 2023
Sonicwall Inc., Milpitas, CA (US);
SonicWALL Inc., Milpitas, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed are systems, apparatuses, methods, computer readable medium, and circuits for providing access to a network. According to at least one example, a method includes: intercepting a request at a firewall the request sent from a computing device regarding establishment of a secure communication session with a network; in response to determining that the request is unauthenticated, notifying a service provider node of the request, wherein the service provider node is configured to: generating a communication session between the computing device and a RBI server; receiving at the firewall authentication information pertaining to authorization for the computing device to establish the secure communication session with the network; identifying that the secure communication session is allowed to be established based on the authentication information; and providing access at the firewall to the computing device to establish the secure communication session with the network.