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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2026
Filed:
Feb. 13, 2025
Palo Alto Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Anand Oswal, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Arivu Mani Ramasamy, San Jose, CA (US);
Kumar Ramachandran, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Palo Alto Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
In some embodiments, a system/process/computer program product for flow metadata exchanges between network and security functions for a security service includes receiving a flow at a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) device; analyzing the flow to determine whether the flow is associated with a split tunnel, comprising: extracting meta data information associated with one flow of the flow to determine the meta data information, wherein the meta data information includes one or more of the following: a user identifier, an application identifier, and/or a device identifier; comparing the extracted meta data information with meta data information associated with a predetermined set of users, applications, and devices; and in the event that the extracted meta data information matches the meta data information associated with one or more of the predetermined set of users, applications, and devices, then determining that the one flow is associated with the split tunnel; and monitoring the flow at the SD-WAN device to collect security information associated with the flow for reporting to a security service.