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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 10, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2016
Varmour Networks, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
vArmour Networks, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems for granular segmentation of data networks are provided herein. Exemplary methods include: receiving from a metadata source event metadata associated with a workload; identifying a workload type using the event metadata; determining a high-level declarative security policy using the workload type; launching a compiler to generate a low-level firewall rule set using the high-level declarative policy and the event metadata; and configuring by a plurality of enforcement points a respective network switch of a plurality of network switches to process packets in accordance with the low-level firewall ruleset, the network switches being collectively communicatively coupled to a plurality of workloads, such that network communications between a first group of workloads of the plurality of workloads and the workload are not permitted, and between a second group of workloads of the plurality of workloads and the workload are permitted.