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AssigneeNetdevices, Inc.
InventorsSeenu Banda, Ankur Prakash
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Community based defense, in which multiple security devices operate as a part of a single community in providing security defense i.e. avoiding redundant security checks and enables efficient deployment and utilization of resources. The devices in a community communicate with each other to determine their roles and the security policies to enforce, based on the specific role they have undertaken. Thus primary player may operate with a larger set of security policies. However, the secondary players (operating on smaller policy sets) may periodically check the operational status of the primary player and assumes the role of primary, if needed. Later, it may gracefully relinquish the temporary role back to former primary, once the primary is up and operational.
A method of supporting a security application in a security device connected to a network, said method being performed in said security device, said method comprising:
A computer readable medium carrying one or more sequences of instructions for enabling a security device to support a security application to be initiated on a network, wherein execution of said one or more sequences of instructions by one or more processors contained in said security device causes said one or more processors to perform the actions of:
An apparatus in a security device for supporting a security application, said security device being connected to a network, said apparatus comprising:
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