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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2015
Varmour Networks, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Choung-Yaw Shieh, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jia-Jyi Lian, Saratoga, CA (US);
Yi Sun, San Jose, CA (US);
Meng Xu, Los Altos, CA (US);
vArmour Networks, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Context aware microservice networks and contextual security policies for microservice networks are provided herein. In some embodiments, a system includes a plurality of microservices, each of the plurality of microservices having a plurality of distributed microservice components. At least a portion of the distributed microservice components execute on different physical or virtual servers in a data center or a cloud. The system also includes a plurality of logical security boundaries, with each of the plurality of logical security boundaries being created by a plurality of enforcement points positioned in association with the plurality of distributed microservice components. Each of plurality of microservices is bounded by one of the plurality of logical security boundaries.