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Securing applications on public facing systems

  • US 9,749,291 B2
  • Filed: 07/15/2011
  • Issued: 08/29/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/15/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method of providing secured access to an intranet application via an external network, the computer-implemented method comprising:

  • configuring a dummy interface on a virtual machine (VM) instance being hosted in a computing cloud and including virtualized hardware, the VM instance having an external interface accessible via the external network, wherein the intranet application executes on the VM instance, wherein the dummy interface is assigned a network address that is inaccessible from the external interface, wherein the dummy interface provides an interface for a virtual network that exists only on the VM instance;

    binding the intranet application to the dummy interface and by operation of one or more computer processors; and

    establishing, over the external network, a virtual private network (VPN) connection between a VPN server on the VM instance and a VPN client executing on a remote computing system, wherein a VPN interface on the VPN client is assigned a network address that is routable to the dummy interface, whereafter a client application, executing on the VPN client, forwards packets to the intranet application bound to the dummy interface over the VPN connection.

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