Automatic tagging of cloud resources for implementing security policies
US11290527B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jun 30, 2020 |
| Grant date | Mar 29, 2022 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 24, 2040 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F2009/45595
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Systems and methods for automatically tagging cloud resources that are spread across multiple cloud platforms are provided. According to one embodiment, information regarding each cloud provider of multiple cloud providers associated with a cloud environment used by a private network is received by a cloud-tagging orchestrator service of the private network. For each cloud resource of a plurality of cloud resources hosted by the cloud providers on behalf of the private network: (i) information associated with the cloud resource is retrieved by the cloud-tagging orchestrator service; (ii) a unified tag of multiple unified tags for the cloud resource is identified by the cloud-tagging orchestrator service based on a pre-defined global tagging policy; and (ii) the unified tag is assigned by the cloud-tagging orchestrator service to the cloud resource via an application programming interface (API) of a cloud provider of the multiple cloud providers hosting the resource.
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