US Patent 11909739 Industrial security model as a SASE service

A method includes determining a corresponding level of a security model associated with each device of a plurality of devices connected to a network, each level of the security model having a corresponding tag; applying, to each of the plurality of devices, the corresponding tag based on the corresponding level of the security model with which each of the plurality of devices are associated; receiving, over a network connection, network traffic from at least one of the plurality of devices and the corresponding tag; analyzing the corresponding tag associated with the network traffic; determining a destination for the network traffic; applying one or more security measures to the network traffic based on the corresponding tag for the at least one device and a corresponding tag of the destination for the network traffic; and sending the network traffic to the destination with the corresponding tag of the destination.