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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 2026
Filed:
Jan. 16, 2024
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Apoorv Raj, Bangalore, IN;
Durairaj Murugasamy, Bangalore, IN;
Paritosh Sinha, Bihar, IN;
Vinay Singh, Ranchi, IN;
George Mathew Koikara, Bangalore, IN;
David Arthur Mcgrew, Poolesville, MD (US);
Sivakrishna Lingareddy, Bangalore, IN;
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to on-device firewall and library agents integrated with secure agents on network connected endpoints. The on-device firewall and library agents enable inline analysis and inspection of data packets using protocol fingerprints generated for the data packets using an on-device malware detection engine. In one aspect, a network device includes a driver configured to capture a plurality of data packets received at the network device; and an on-device malware detection engine configured to receive at least a subset of the plurality of packets, and generate a fingerprint for the subset of the plurality of packets, the fingerprint being indicative of whether the plurality of data packets are associated with an external malware communication.