Filtering outbound network traffic
AssigneeAssured Information Security, Inc.
InventorsJared Wright, Jacob Torrey
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Abstract
Obtaining, in association with origination of outbound network traffic to be sent by a system, user account information of a user account on behalf of which the outbound network traffic is generated, and performing filtering of the outbound network traffic based on the obtained user account information of the user account on behalf of which the outbound network traffic is generated, where the filtering is further based on one or more rules, and the filtering includes determining whether to block or allow sending of the outbound network traffic from the system.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- obtaining, in association with origination of outbound network traffic to be sent by a system, user account information of a user account on behalf of which the outbound network traffic is generated;
- and
- performing filtering of the outbound network traffic based on the obtained user account information of the user account on behalf of which the outbound network traffic is generated, wherein the filtering is further based on one or more rules, and the filtering comprises determining whether to block or allow sending of the outbound network traffic from the system.
A computer program product comprising:
- a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising program instructions for execution to perform a method comprising:
- obtaining, in association with origination of outbound network traffic to be sent by a system, user account information of a user account on behalf of which the outbound network traffic is generated;
- and
- performing filtering of the outbound network traffic based on the obtained user account information of the user account on behalf of which the outbound network traffic is generated, wherein the filtering is further based on one or more rules, and the filtering comprises determining whether to block or allow sending of the outbound network traffic from the system.
A computer system configured to perform a method comprising:
- obtaining, in association with origination of outbound network traffic to be sent by a system, user account information of a user account on behalf of which the outbound network traffic is generated;
- and
- performing filtering of the outbound network traffic based on the obtained user account information of the user account on behalf of which the outbound network traffic is generated, wherein the filtering is further based on one or more rules, and the filtering comprises determining whether to block or allow sending of the outbound network traffic from the system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.