Cloud based platform to efficiently manage firewall rules and data traffic

A virtual cloud-based networking platform comprising:

• a cloud-based admin portal to manage a set of security services for gateway devices;
• a virtual database;
• one or more cloud-based servers with one or more processors communicably connected to the cloud-based admin portal and the virtual database, wherein the one or more processors configured to:
• receive an encapsulated data packet from a gateway device installed in an organization network, wherein the organization network comprises one or more hardware devices and applications transmitting one or more data packets to the gateway device, wherein the one or more data packets comprise a request to access one or more cloud-based services;
• decapsulate the encapsulated data packet from the gateway device to retrieve the one or more data packets wrapped within the encapsulated data packet;
• verify a security certificate of the gateway device by accessing the cloud-based admin portal, wherein the security certificate is issued by the cloud-based admin portal to validate an identity of a client on the gateway device;
• configure a cloud-based firewall based on a second information hosted by the virtual database;
• and
• process the one or more data packets based on the second information, wherein in response to the one or more data packets being compliant with the second information,
• route the one or more data packets via a cloud communication network protocol to the one or more cloud-based service.

A system comprising:

• a virtual client with one or more processors communicably connected to a virtual server, wherein the one or more processors configured to:
• receive one or more data packets from one or more applications installed on a gateway device installed in an organization network, wherein the organization network comprises one or more hardware devices and applications transmitting one or more data packets, wherein the one or more data packets comprise a request to access one or more cloud-based services;
• encapsulate the one or more data packets into an encapsulated data packet;
• and
• route the encapsulated data packet through a virtual tunnel interface to the virtual server;
• the virtual server with one or more processors communicably connected to a cloud-based admin portal and a virtual database, wherein the one or more processors configured to:
• receive the encapsulated data packet from the virtual client through the virtual tunnel interface in a data format compatible with a cloud-based firewall;
• decapsulate the encapsulated data packet to retrieve the one or more data packets wrapped within the encapsulated data packet;
• verify a security certificate of the gateway device by accessing the cloud-based admin portal, wherein the security certificate is issued by the cloud-based admin portal to validate an identity of the virtual client on the gateway device;
• configure the cloud-based firewall based on a second information hosted by the virtual database;
• and
• process the one or more data packets based on the second information, wherein in response to the one or more data packets being compliant with the second information,
• route the one or more data packets via a cloud communication network protocol to the one or more cloud-based service.

A gateway device installed in a networking environment comprising:

• a first client to route a first data traffic from one or more applications installed at the gateway device to a data packet wrapper, wherein the first data traffic is indicative of a request to access one or more cloud services;
• a second client to route a second data traffic to the data packet wrapper, wherein the second traffic is indicative of a request for one of new or updated security certificates for the first client;
• the data packet wrapper to encapsulate the first data traffic and the second data traffic into a single data packet;
• and
• a user defined tunnel to communicate the single data packet to a cloud-based server in a protocol compatible with a cloud-based firewall, wherein the single data packet is communicated to the cloud-based server through one of a TLS-over-TCP connection or HTTP connection.