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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 22, 2013
Yi Sun, San Jose, CA (US);
Meng Xu, Los Altos, CA (US);
Lee Cheung, Foster City, CA (US);
Hsisheng Wang, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Chuong-yaw Michael Shieh, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Yi Sun, San Jose, CA (US);
Meng Xu, Los Altos, CA (US);
Lee Cheung, Foster City, CA (US);
Hsisheng Wang, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Chuong-Yaw Michael Shieh, Palo Alto, CA (US);
VARMOUR NETWORKS, INC., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for distributed zone-based security. In one embodiment, the method comprises: determining an ingress security zone associated with an ingress of a first network device based on a first key and a media access control (MAC) address of a source of a packet; determining an egress security zone of a second network device based on a MAC address of a destination for the packet and a second key; performing a policy lookup based on the ingress security zone and the egress security zone to identify a policy to apply to the packet; and applying the policy to the packet.