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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2026
Filed:
Apr. 03, 2024
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Praveen Kumar Patnala, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Ganesh Narayanaswamy, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Shaobo Liu, Broomfield, CO (US);
Mark Landgrebe, Marina Del Rey, CA (US);
Vijay Chander, San Ramon, CA (US);
Vishal Jain, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed are systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media for inventory monitoring in a multi-cloud network environment. A method includes receiving user input via a controller's interface, wherein the input includes first account information granting access to a first virtual private cloud and a second virtual private cloud, both hosted by a cloud service provider (CSP). The controller queries the first and second virtual private clouds using the respective account information and the CSP's APIs to identify resources, gathering them into an inventory, and maintains a mapping of tags to the resources, associating each tag with a specific security policy. The controller forwards a first subset of tag-resource mappings to a first security gateway in the first virtual private cloud, enabling automatic application of corresponding security policies upon instantiation of tagged resources.