Patent ID: 8387127
Filing Date: 2013-02-26
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: intercepting, at a data security appliance, out-of-band control traffic from a computing device directed to a data storage device, wherein the out-of-band control traffic includes a command to change a configuration of the data storage device; forwarding the out-of-band control traffic from the data security appliance to the data storage device; intercepting, at the data security appliance, a response from the data storage device that indicates the command was successfully executed; and reconfiguring automatically and without user interaction, by the data security appliance, a parameter of the data security appliance associated with communication with the data storage device in accordance with the command in order to conform with a new configuration of the data storage device, wherein the reconfiguring is performed as a result of intercepting the response from the data storage device.