Patent ID: 11909771
Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 6:
7. An apparatus comprising:
one or more memories;
one or more network interfaces; and
one or more processors configured to perform operations on behalf of a Domain Name System (DNS) device such that the one or more processors are configured to:
store, in the one or more memories, data indicative of a role associated with a user device and data indicative of a policy setting a level of access of the user device to a responding device, wherein the data indicative of the role associated with the user device indicates a security level for the user device within an enterprise network environment;
obtain, via the one or more network interfaces from the user device, a request for an Internet Protocol (IP) address of the responding device;
determine, based upon the request and the data indicative of the role associated with the user device, that the policy applies to the request; and
apply the policy in response to determining that the policy applies to the request, by providing, to the user device, data indicative of an IP address of a notification server to redirect the user device from the responding device to the notification server to provide the user device with an indication of application of the policy by the DNS device.