Patent Document ID: 8370936
Application ID: 10072683
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method comprising: receiving, at a network device, a plurality of packets; inspecting, by the network device, the plurality of packets to determine whether the plurality of packets includes information indicative of a security breach, inspecting the plurality of packets including: inspecting the plurality of packets to identify one or more protocol irregularities, associated with the plurality of packets, to determine whether the plurality of packets includes the information indicative of the security breach, without a user request to inspect the plurality of packets to identify the one or more protocol irregularities, after inspecting the plurality of packets to identify the one or more protocol irregularities and when the plurality of packets does not include the one or more protocol irregularities: inspecting the plurality of packets to identify one or more attack signatures, associated with the plurality of packets, to determine whether the plurality of packets includes the information indicative of the security breach, without a user request to inspect the plurality of packets to identify the one or more attack signatures, and after inspecting the plurality of packets to identify the one or more attack signatures and when the plurality of packets does not include the one or more attack signatures: inspecting the plurality of packets to identify one or more traffic signatures, associated with the plurality of packets, to determine whether the plurality of packets includes the information indicative of the security breach, without a user request to inspect the plurality of packets to identify the one or more traffic signatures; dropping, by the network device, at least one packet of the plurality of packets when the at least one packet includes the information indicative of the security breach; and forwarding, by the network device, the at least one packet when the at least one packet does not include the information indicative of the security breach.