US Patent 11962589 Disaster recovery for a cloud-based security service

Systems and methods include intercepting traffic on the user device; forwarding the traffic to a cloud-based system for security processing therein; and, responsive to unavailability of the cloud-based system preventing the forwarding, performing local security processing of the traffic at the user device including determining whether the traffic is allowed based on a cache at the user device, forwarding the traffic separate from the cloud-based system when it is allowed, and blocking the traffic when it is not allowed.