US Patent 11336698 Synthetic request injection for cloud policy enforcement

The technology disclosed describes a system. The system comprises a network security system interposed between clients and cloud applications. The network security system is configured to receive one or more incoming requests from a client during an application session, inject one or more synthetic requests into the application session independently of the incoming requests to transmit the synthetic requests to the cloud application, and receive one or more responses to the synthetic requests from the cloud application.