Abstract:
Modern day user applications leverages new communication technologies such as WebRTC, WebEx, and Jabber allow devices to connect and exchange media content including audio streams, video streams, and data stream/channels. The present disclosure describes mechanisms for a Port Control Protocol (PCP) server to provide feedback to PCP clients to enforce certain policies on the transport of such media content for a network. A policy may include a traffic handling policy for enforcing differentiated quality of service characteristics for different types of media streams. Another policy may include a security policy ensuring a data files being transmitted over a data channel from one endpoint travels to a security application via a relay element before the packets reaches another endpoint. The mechanisms are transparent to the endpoints, and advantageously preserve the user experience for these user applications.
Abstract:
Modern day user applications leverages new communication technologies such as WebRTC, WebEx, and Jabber allow devices to connect and exchange media content including audio streams, video streams, and data stream/channels. The present disclosure describes mechanisms for a Port Control Protocol (PCP) server to provide feedback to PCP clients to enforce certain policies on the transport of such media content for a network. A policy may include a traffic handling policy for enforcing differentiated quality of service characteristics for different types of media streams. Another policy may include a security policy ensuring a data files being transmitted over a data channel from one endpoint travels to a security application via a relay element before the packets reaches another endpoint. The mechanisms are transparent to the endpoints, and advantageously preserve the user experience for these user applications.
Abstract:
In one implementation, identity based security features and policies are applied to endpoint devices behind an intermediary device, such as a network address translation device. The access network switch authenticates an endpoint based on a user identity and a credential. A hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) packet is generated or modified to include the user identity in an inline header. The HTTP packet including the user identity is sent to a policy enforcement device to look up one or more policies for the endpoint. The access switch receives traffic from the policy enforcement device that is filtered according the user identity. Subsequent TCP connections may also include identity information within the TCP USER_HINT option in a synchronization packet thus allowing identity propagation for other applications and protocols.
Abstract:
In one embodiment, a device in a network receives domain name system (DNS) information for a domain. The DNS information includes one or more service tags indicative of one or more services offered by the domain. The device detects an encrypted traffic flow associated with the domain. The device identifies a service associated with the encrypted traffic flow based on the one or more service tags. The device prioritizes the encrypted traffic flow based on the identified service associated with the encrypted traffic flow.
Abstract:
In one embodiment, a device in a network receives an attack mitigation request regarding traffic in the network. The device causes an assessment of the traffic, in response to the attack mitigation request. The device determines that an attack detector associated with the attack mitigation request incorrectly assessed the traffic, based on the assessment of the traffic. The device causes an update to an attack detection model of the attack detector, in response to determining that the attack detector incorrectly assessed the traffic.
Abstract:
A method comprises receiving, at a network infrastructure device, a flow of packets, determining, using the network infrastructure device and for a first subset of the packets, that the first subset corresponds to a first datagram and determining a first length of the first datagram, determining, using the network infrastructure device and for a second subset of the packets, that the second subset corresponds to a second datagram that was received after the first datagram, and determining a second length of the second datagram, determining, using the network infrastructure device, a duration value between a first arrival time of the first datagram and a second arrival time of the second datagram, sending, to a collector device that is separate from the network infrastructure device, the first length, the second length, and the duration value for analysis.
Abstract:
Modern day user applications leverages new communication technologies such as WebRTC, WebEx, and Jabber allow devices to connect and exchange media content including audio streams, video streams, and data stream/channels. The present disclosure describes mechanisms for a Port Control Protocol (PCP) server to provide feedback to PCP clients to enforce certain policies on the transport of such media content for a network. A policy may include a traffic handling policy for enforcing differentiated quality of service characteristics for different types of media streams. Another policy may include a security policy ensuring a data files being transmitted over a data channel from one endpoint travels to a security application via a relay element before the packets reaches another endpoint. The mechanisms are transparent to the endpoints, and advantageously preserve the user experience for these user applications.
Abstract:
Presented herein are techniques for remediating a distributed denial of service attack. A methodology includes, at a network device, such as a constrained resource Internet of Things (IoT) device, receiving from an authorization server cryptographic material sufficient to validate and decrypt tokens carried in packets, detecting a denial of service attack that employs packets containing invalid tokens, and in response to detecting the denial of service attack, signaling a remediation server for assistance to remediate the denial of service attack, and sending to the remediation server the cryptographic material over a secure communication channel such that the remediation server enables validation and decryption of tokens carried in packets, subsequent to detection of the denial of service attack, that are destined for the network device.
Abstract:
In one embodiment, a primary server receives, from a client device, a first request to mitigate an external attack on the client device. The primary server sends, to a plurality of secondary servers, a second request to mitigate the external attack, wherein each one of the plurality of secondary servers has associated mitigation resources, and receives from at least one of the plurality of secondary servers an indication that it has mitigation resources capable of mitigating the external attack. The primary server sends, to the client device, a list including the secondary servers having mitigation resources capable of mitigating the attack, and receives, from the client device, an indication that a subset of the list is selected to mitigate the external attack. In response, the primary server sends a request for mitigation services to one of the secondary servers in the subset selected to mitigate the external attack.
Abstract:
A service classifier network device receives a subflow and identifies that the subflow is one of at least two subflows in a multipath data flow. Related data packets are sent from a source node to a destination node in the multipath data flow. The service classifier generates a multipath flow identifier and encapsulates the subflow with a header to produce an encapsulated first subflow. The header identifies a service function path and includes metadata with the multipath flow identifier.