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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2026
Filed:
Jul. 27, 2023
Palo Alto Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Pankaj Bhagra, Fremont, CA (US);
Aniket Ghule, San Jose, CA (US);
Srinivasan Komandoor Santhanam, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Arivu Mani Ramasamy, San Jose, CA (US);
Palo Alto Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for load balancing secure network traffic are disclosed. A system, process, and/or computer program product for load balancing secure network traffic includes monitoring network traffic for each of a plurality of branches for an enterprise network, and performing load balancing for the plurality of monitored branches to a plurality of security processing nodes (SPNs) executing in a cloud-based security service using a network load balancer (NLB) in communication with a plurality of Network Processing Nodes (NPNs), the plurality of monitored branches being distributed to the plurality of SPNs via a plurality of tunnels.