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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 20, 2014
Sudhindra P. Herle, Dallas, TX (US);
Patrick Foxhoven, San Jose, CA (US);
Sudhindra P. Herle, Dallas, TX (US);
Patrick Foxhoven, San Jose, CA (US);
Zscaler, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method includes connecting to a client at a Virtual Private Network (VPN) device in a cloud system; forwarding requests from the client for the Internet or public clouds accordingly; and, for requests for an enterprise associated with the client, contacting a topology controller to fetch a topology of the enterprise, causing a tunnel to be established from the enterprise to the VPN device, and forwarding the requests for the enterprise through the tunnel. A cloud system and VPN system are also described. Advantageously, connections between the cloud and on-premises proxy are dynamic, on-demand and orchestrated by the cloud. Security is provided at the edge—there is no need to punch any holes in the existing on-premises firewalls.