Patent ID: 11888816
Assignee: PALO ALTO NETWORKS, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 15:
16. A computer program product, the computer program product being embodied in a non-transitory computer readable storage medium and comprising computer instructions for:
performing a source Network Address Translation (NAT) from a registered set of public Internet Protocol (IP) addresses associated with a tenant in response to a connection request at a network gateway of a security service, wherein an egress IP from the network gateway is associated with a region that corresponds to the region of a user that sent the connection request to facilitate an enhanced user experience of locality for a user of a Software as a Service (SaaS); and
providing secure access to a Software as a Service (SaaS) using the security service, wherein the security service maintains a set of IP address ranges for each of their supported regions to provide distinct public IP address pools for each customer of the security service, and wherein the security service is provided using a public cloud service provider or a plurality of public cloud service providers.