Patent ID: 8881258

Claim:
A method, comprising: detecting, at a first node having a security-as-a-service (SaaS) agent, a threat originating from a source node having a source address in a network, wherein the network includes at least the first node and a plurality of nodes each having a respective SaaS agent; applying a local firewall policy on the first node to block incoming connections associated with the source address; broadcasting, from the first node, an alert to the respective SaaS agents of the plurality of nodes in the network, wherein the broadcast alert comprises the source address of the source node from which the threat originated, wherein broadcasting the alert comprises broadcasting the local firewall policy; identifying, by the first node, a presence of an SaaS firewall module of the source node; and responsive to identifying the presence of the SaaS firewall module on the source node, communicating to the source node to apply a remote firewall policy to block outgoing connections from the source node to the plurality of nodes in the network.