Patent ID: 8955092
Filing Date: 2015-02-10
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for eliminating redundant security analyses on network data packets, at least a portion of the method being performed by a computing device comprising at least one processor, the method comprising: intercepting, at a networking device, at least one network data packet destined for a target computing device; identifying a security system installed on the target computing device by retrieving information about the target computing device from a cloud-based server that verifies that the networking device has administrative authority over the target computing device; determining that the security system installed on the target computing device does not satisfy a predefined security standard; performing a security analysis that satisfies the predefined security standard on the network data packet at the networking device based at least in part on determining that the security system installed on the target computing device does not satisfy the predefined security standard.