Patent ID: 11863349
Assignee: NILE GLOBAL, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 16:
17. A method for network segmentation of a network deployed at a customer site, the method comprising:
establishing a plurality of Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) tunnels between a gateway device of the network deployed at the customer site and a plurality of network ports of a switch of the network deployed at the customer site, wherein the GRE tunnels are separate from each other;
when a plurality of wired devices are plugged into the network ports of the switch, transmitting network traffic between the wired devices and the gateway device through the GRE tunnels;
facilitating a security operation regarding the wired devices through the gateway device, wherein facilitating the security operation regarding the wired devices comprises:
at a cloud server; determining whether a wired device supports an authentication protocol or standard;
if the wired device, supports the authentication protocol or standard, authenticating the wired device using an authentication server by sending an authentication request to the authentication server; and
if the wired device does not support the authentication protocol or standard, authenticating the wired device by checking the wired device against a network segmentation database; and

based on a result of the security operation, performing a network segmentation operation regarding the wired devices using the gateway device.