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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2026
Filed:
Jul. 16, 2024
Sonicwall Inc., Milpitas, CA (US);
Tarun Desikan, Burlingame, CA (US);
Jayanth Gummaraju, Walnut Creek, CA (US);
Yoshio Turner, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jasmine S. Sanghvi, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
SONICWALL INC., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
This disclosure is related to methods and apparatus for securely routing and controlling access of various types of traffic for one or more end-user devices. Securely routing and controlling access of the various types of traffic includes securely routing private application traffic from a first end-user device to a private network, securely routing private network traffic from a second end-user device to a private network, and filtering and monitoring Internet traffic for a third end-user device from the Internet or a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application. Securely routing and controlling access of the various types of traffic includes using a Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) proxy to authenticate the end-user devices and a firewall connector coupled with a network firewall to establish a connector tunnel.