Patent ID: 11949654
Assignee: PALO ALTO NETWORKS, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 15:
16. A computer program product, the computer program product being embodied in a tangible computer readable storage medium and comprising computer instructions for:
receiving a flow at a firewall of a security service;
inspecting the flow at the firewall to determine meta information associated with the flow; and
offloading the flow to an offload entity based on the meta information associated with the flow and based on a policy, wherein the policy is configured to offload passthrough traffic encrypted network traffic in a service provider network in which the service provider does not have a decryption key to inspect the encrypted network traffic, and wherein the offload entity includes a Smart Network Interface Card (SmartNIC) that comprises software executed on a Network Interface Card (NIC) and/or a network device that comprises a network router and/or a network switch.