Patent ID: 8806607

Claim:
A system comprising: a processor to: receive a policy from a policy manager, the policy including a signature, receive a plurality of data packets from a computing device, extract data payloads from the plurality of data packets, reassemble a message from the extracted data payloads, identify a class associated with the computing device, the class designating a group of computing devices, the group of computing devices including the computing device, and the group of computing devices being one or more of: associated with a same organizational unit of a company as an employee, of the company, that is using the computing device, a same type of device as the computing device, or located in a same area as the computing device, and selectively forward, based on the signature and the class, at least a portion of the message to a different computing device that is not part of the group of computing devices, the signature being associated with instructions for managing traffic from the class, and the traffic including the portion of the message.