Patent ID: 9444840
Filing Date: 2016-09-13
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. An apparatus for providing a security service, the apparatus comprising: a data storage; and a processor communicatively coupled to the data storage, the processor being configured to: store a plurality of security policies corresponding to a plurality of client content segments in the data storage; receive a first client content segment; determine a first client content segment identifier based on the content of the first client content segment; select a first security policy from the plurality of security policies based on the first client content segment identifier; apply the first security policy to the first client content segment; receive a second client content segment; determine a second client content segment identifier based on the content of the second client content segment; determine that the plurality of security policies does not contain a valid security policy for the second client content segment based on the second client content segment identifier; and send a security analysis request to a central instance in response to the determination that the plurality of security policies does not contain the valid security policy; wherein the first security policy is based on a first security risk associated with the content of the first client content segment and the valid security policy is associated with a second security risk associated with the content of the second client content segment.