Patent ID: 11916902
Assignee: FORTINET, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 13:
14. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium embodying a set of instructions, which when executed by one or more processing resources of a computer system, causes the one or more processing resources to perform a method comprising:
receiving, by a processing device, a request to access a known network from a known access device connected through a remote network, wherein the known network is a private network that authorizes credentials associated with the known access device, and the remote network is external to the known network;
scanning, by the processing device of the known access device, the remote network through which access to the known network is to be established, wherein the scanning is configured to identify an unsecure network element on the remote network;
based at least in part on identifying at least one unsecure network element on the remote network, denying access to the known network; and
based at least in part upon on failure to identify any unsecure network element on the remote network, requesting a grant of access from the known network to the processing device.