A method for sharing data encryption keys among a plurality of storage systems is disclosed. The method generates, by a first storage system, a data encryption key for encrypting data sent from the first storage system to cloud storage. The method stores the encrypted data in the cloud storage in the form of an encrypted data object. In certain embodiments, the first storage system stores an Internet Protocol (IP) address of a second storage system belonging to a same key sharing network as the first storage system. The method replicates, from the first storage system to the second storage system, the data encryption key. The second storage system retrieves the encrypted data object from the cloud storage and decrypts the encrypted data in the encrypted data object using the data encryption key received from the first storage system.

A method in a first virtual private network (VPN) server associated with clustering a plurality of VPN servers in a clustered network, the method including receiving, from a VPN service provider (VSP) control infrastructure, VPN data associated with a user device having an established VPN connection with the clustered network; and communicating, utilizing key information, the VPN data with the user device during the established VPN connection. Various other aspects are contemplated.

Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to implement a virtual private network with probe for network connectivity are disclosed. An example non-transitory computer readable storage medium is disclosed comprising instructions which, when executed, cause a machine to at least, in response to a first instruction from an operating system to establish a network tunnel, transmit a probe request to a server; and in response to not receiving, from the server, a probe response to the probe request, report that the network tunnel has been established to prevent the operating system from transmitting subsequent instructions to establish the network connection until a response to a probe request is received.

Briefly, methods and/or apparatuses of virtual deployment of network-related features are disclosed.

Methods, devices, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for network dataset processing are provided. An initial user interface in a terminal is generated. The initial user interface is configured to access a network dataset. A network dataset selected from the at least one network dataset is used as a target network dataset in response to selecting the at least one network dataset. A target virtual private network (VPN) node corresponding to the target network dataset is determined in response to an access operation on the target network dataset. An accelerated access channel between the terminal and the target network dataset is established through the target VPN node. The initial user interface is switched to an accelerated user interface. The network data processing information is displayed on the accelerated user interface. The network data processing information indicates that the accelerated access channel is used for accessing the target network dataset.

Embodiments of the present invention provide a system for facilitating a secure way to allow primary users and secondary users to perform interactions remotely via an automated machine and one or more auxiliary devices on the same local network. In particular, the system may assign exclusive control over an automated device and one or more auxiliary devices to a primary user via a computing device connected to the same local network or virtual private network as the automated machine, and may allow the primary user to communicate via the automated machine with a secondary user who wishes to complete one or more resource interactions.

A method is disclosed including establishing a browser session in response to receiving a request from a browser application in a public network. The browser session is assigned to a dedicated network service running in a dedicated network name space. Requests received from the browser application are proxied to a dedicated network service. A local web session in the dedicated network service authenticates a user of the browser application for access to at least one private webservice. A security client in the dedicated network service establishes a networking tunnel between the proxy and a remote gateway to the private network, thereby obtaining network access to the private webservice from the dedicated network name space. Within the dedicated network name space, proxied requests addressing the private webservice are forwarded over the networking tunnel to the private network.

A system and method of performing communications over a communications network that uses a communication protocol having multiple different versions, provides for backwards compatibility when devices that support a higher or more secure version of the communication protocol are added to a network having devices that only support a lower or less secure version of the communication protocol. The system and method includes a technique of negotiating and establishing security procedures to be implemented in a communication connection between two devices on the network based on initial session request messages that indicate the version of the communication protocol supported by one or both of the devices. This system and method enable higher and lower protocol version devices (i.e., devices that conform to or that use the same communication protocol but that have different versions of the protocol installed therein) to communicate with one another in the most secure manner, thereby making higher version devices added to a network backward compatible with lower version devices already within the network.

According to some embodiments, a software defined wide area network (SD-WAN) includes a first region and a second region. The first region includes multiple first routing controllers and multiple first SD-WAN edge routers. The second region includes multiple second routing controllers and multiple second SD-WAN edge routers. Each first SD-WAN edge router of the first region is configured to establish Overlay Management Protocol (OMP) peering connections with the plurality of first routing controllers of the first region but to avoid establishing OMP peering connections with the plurality of second routing controllers of the second region. Each second SD-WAN edge router of the second region is configured to establish OMP peering connections with the plurality of second routing controllers of the second region but to avoid establishing OMP peering connections with the plurality of first routing controllers of the first region.

Embodiments of the present invention provide a system for facilitating a secure way to allow primary users and secondary users to perform interactions remotely via an automated machine, such as an automated teller machine (ATM). In particular, the system may assign exclusive control over an automated device to a primary user via a computing device connected to the same local network or virtual private network as the automated machine, and may allow the primary user to communicate via the automated machine with a secondary user who wishes to complete one or more resource interactions. In some embodiments, the system may invoke one or more auxiliary devices on the same network to complete the interaction.