| CPC H04L 63/1425 (2013.01) [H04L 63/02 (2013.01); H04L 63/20 (2013.01)] | 19 Claims |

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1. A method for agentless detection of network exposure of a software appliance, comprising:
detecting a software appliance in a cloud computing environment, wherein the software appliance includes an immutable preconfigured, self-contained software application;
inspecting the software appliance utilizing agentless inspection for a proxy-type application;
detecting network traffic associated with the software appliance;
generating a network path based on the network traffic and a network identifier of at least a component of the cloud computing environment based on detecting the proxy-type application and an identifier of the at least a component in the detected network traffic;
actively inspecting the generated network path through an external network, wherein the external network is external to the cloud computing environment;
determining that the network path exposes the at least a component based on a result of actively inspecting the generated network path; and
initiating a remediation action based on the result of the active inspection.
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