Patent ID: 8239960
Filing Date: 2012-08-07
Classification: G06F,H04L,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method for providing data privacy of mirrored network traffic during mirroring between a mirror source point and a mirror destination point, the method comprising: receiving a plurality of units of network traffic representing one or more streams of network traffic at a mirror source point of a first network device on a network; altering, by the mirror source point, one or more of the plurality of units received from a first data source point remotely located from the mirror source point for transmission toward a first data destination point, the altering of the one or more units providing privacy for at least a portion of selected data of the one or more units during at least a portion of mirroring communications from the mirror source point toward a mirror destination point; and communicating, by the mirror source point, the one or more altered units of network traffic from the mirror source point toward the mirror destination point.