Patent 11924167 was granted and assigned to VMware on March, 2024 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The disclosure provides an approach for implementing a distributed firewall within a data center. The firewall is implemented as a kernel space filter driver within the operating system of virtual machines. Each virtual machine hosts several user sessions. The firewall may be dynamically updated with new security policies, either by an administrator or a component of the data center.