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

Claim 14:
15. A system for network segmentation of a network deployed at a customer site, the system comprising:
memory; and
one or more processors configured to:
establish a tunnel between a network device of the network deployed at the customer site and a network port of a switch of the network deployed at the customer site;
when a wired device is plugged into the network port of the switch, transmit network traffic between the wired device and the network device through the tunnel;
facilitate a security operation regarding the wired device by
at a cloud server, determining wherein the wired device supports an authentication protocol or standard;
if the wired device does not support 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, authentication the wired device by checking the wired device against a network segmentation database; and

based on a result of the security operation, perform a network segmentation operation regarding the wired device,
wherein the one or more processors are further configured to establish a plurality of tunnels between the network device and a plurality of network ports of the switch, and wherein the tunnels are separate from each other.