Preventing the introduction of malicious-edge-gateway the edge management's fleet via network interceptor and identity validation

Abstract

One method includes verifying, by a gateway management system, an edge gateway, upon successful verification of the edge gateway, generating an identifier that is unique to the edge gateway, and storing the identifier in the edge gateway. When the edge gateway intercepts a packet, the edge gateway may add the unique identifier to a header of the packet. When the gateway management system receives the packet with the modified header, the gateway management system can use the identifier as a basis to perform a validation process and then either drop the packet if the validation is unsuccessful, or execute the packet if the validation process is successful.

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