18385834. DATA CENTRIC APPROACH FOR SUPPORTING MULTIPLE INLINE CLOUD SERVICES (Palo Alto Networks, Inc.)

DATA CENTRIC APPROACH FOR SUPPORTING MULTIPLE INLINE CLOUD SERVICES

Organization Name

Palo Alto Networks, Inc.

Inventor(s)

Weiming Lai of Fremont CA US

Xin Luo of Fremont CA US

Kashyap Tavarekere Ananthapadmanabha of San Jose CA US

DATA CENTRIC APPROACH FOR SUPPORTING MULTIPLE INLINE CLOUD SERVICES

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18385834 titled 'DATA CENTRIC APPROACH FOR SUPPORTING MULTIPLE INLINE CLOUD SERVICES

Original Abstract Submitted

Techniques for a data centric approach for supporting multiple inline cloud services are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system, a process, and/or a computer program product for a data centric approach for supporting multiple inline cloud services includes processing a set of data for network security analysis; determining whether to offload the set of data to a cloud security entity for security processing; and in response to determining to offload the set of data to the cloud security entity, sending the set of data from the inline security entity to a cloud service portal, wherein: the cloud service portal receives a data upload from the inline security entity and processes the data upload to determine content to send to one or more of a plurality of cloud security services for offload processing based on a data type associated with the content; and the cloud service portal receives a result from the one or more of the plurality of cloud security services and forwards the result to the inline security entity, wherein the inline security entity performs an action based on a security policy associated with the inline security entity.