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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 10, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 25, 2010
Sean Convery, Mountain View, CA (US);
David R. Oran, Acton, MA (US);
James Rivers, Saratoga, CA (US);
John Schnizlein, Fort Washington, MD (US);
Ralph Droms, Westford, MA (US);
Mark Stapp, Belmont, MA (US);
Sean Convery, Mountain View, CA (US);
David R. Oran, Acton, MA (US);
James Rivers, Saratoga, CA (US);
John Schnizlein, Fort Washington, MD (US);
Ralph Droms, Westford, MA (US);
Mark Stapp, Belmont, MA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Generating a binding between a source address and one or more roles of a user accessing the network and distributing the binding to a filter node. The source address is currently assigned to the device. The binding may be generated by one or more nodes on an ingress path used during authentication of the user. The binding may be distributed to the filter node on demand or without any request from the filter node. Responsive to a determination that the user is associated with a new source address, a new binding is generated to associate a new source address with the one or more roles for the user. The new binding is distributed to the filter node. Another aspect is a method of enforcing a role based security policy at a filter node, using bindings of source addresses to roles.