Patent ID: 8464335

Claim:
A network system, comprising: plural mobile devices communicatively coupled to one or more networks; and a node communicatively coupled to each of the plural mobile devices via the one or more networks, wherein the node is configured to perform security analysis and policy enforcement on traffic associated with the plural mobile devices; a plurality of nodes in addition to the node, wherein the plurality of nodes are communicatively coupled to the one or more networks; wherein each of the plural mobile devices is automatically resolved to a nearest of the node and the plurality of nodes based on a Domain Name System address; wherein each of the plural mobile devices is communicatively coupled to the node via a virtual private network connection that provides all browser and application generated traffic associated with each of the plural mobile devices to be inspected without requiring platform-specific applications on each of the plural mobile devices for inspecting the traffic; wherein the node is part of a distributed security system in a cloud that is located external from the one or more networks associated with each of the plural mobile devices and one or more enterprise networks thereby providing the security analysis and policy enforcement in the cloud and not on the plural mobile devices; and wherein the distributed security system provides real-time inspection in the cloud for all browser and application generated traffic of each of the plural mobile devices without requiring signature updates on each of the plural mobile devices.