Patent · US Active

Micro-firewalls in a microservice mesh environment

US11134059B2 · kind B2 · utility

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20Claims

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Assignee

Cisco Technology, Inc. · US

Inventors

Robert Edgar Barton · Richmond, CA
Jerome Henry · Pittsboro, US
Matthias Falkner · Ottawa, CA
Maik Guenter Seewald · Nuremberg, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Dec 4, 2018
Grant date	Sep 28, 2021
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Oct 11, 2039

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04L63/20
WIPO fieldDigital communication
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A server, in communication with a plurality of microservices in a microservices mesh environment, obtains data about inbound communications to a first microservice and outbound communications from the first microservice of the plurality of microservices. The server analyzes the data to learn an operational behavior of the first microservice and determine a firewall rule set to be applied associated with the first microservice based on the operational behavior learned for the first microservice. The server causes a micro-firewall to be instantiated for the first microservice. The micro-firewall is configured to apply the firewall rule set to inbound communications to the first microservice and outbound communications from the first microservice.

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