Patent ID: 8782405

Claim:
A method, comprising: determining security information associated with a object of a transaction, wherein the security information is inserted in a header of the object and the object is to be transmitted from a source device to a target device along a transmission path that includes at least one intermediate device; determining, at each of the source device, and the at least one intermediate device along the transmission path as the object is transmitted along the transmission path, whether a next device in the transmission path to which the object is to be transmitted provides a level of security indicated by at least a portion of the security information in the header of the object; transmitting, at each of the source device, and the at least one intermediate device along the transmission path as the object is transmitted along the transmission path, the object to the next device in the transmission path in response to determining that the next device provides the level of security required by the at least a portion of the security information; and determining an alternative device along a different transmission path that provides the level of security required by the at least a portion of the security information in response to determining that the next device in the transmission path does not provide the level of security required by the at least a portion of the security information.