US 12,407,697 B2
Network access control from anywhere
Erick Ingleby, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to Forescout Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by FORESCOUT TECHNOLOGIES, INC., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Dec. 30, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/148,959.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/325,297, filed on Mar. 30, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0319075 A1, Oct. 5, 2023
Int. Cl. H04L 9/40 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 63/1416 (2013.01) 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
receiving, from a cloud-based security system, information about a device that is coupled to a public network and decoupled from a private network, wherein the information is generated based on network traffic from the device over the public network;
detecting, based on the information, risky activity associated with the device;
determining that the information indicates an application installed on the device is performing the risky activity on the device; and
sending, by a processing device, instructions to a remote agent executing on the device to perform one or more security measures that protect a resource of the device, wherein the instructions instruct the remote agent to prohibit the application installed on the device from accessing the resource on the device.