Patent ID: 11924073
Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A method comprising:
assigning, to a device associated with an internet protocol (IP) address, one or more reputation scores associated with a communication policy, the one or more reputation scores being based on at least one of a determination that the device has been infected by malware, a determination that the IP address of the device has been used to communicate with a different device that is infected by malware, or network activity associated with the device, wherein the device comprises a host in a data center at one of a virtual layer, a hypervisor layer and a physical layer; and
based on the one or more reputation scores, modifying a group policy membership of the device from a policy group to an additional policy group associated with the one or more reputation scores and which governs packet flow to the host in the data center.