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Validation of cloud security policies

US11310284B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateMay 31, 2019
Grant dateApr 19, 2022
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Expiry dateDec 28, 2039

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L67/1097
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Methods and systems for validating security policy in a cloud computing environment are provided. An example method includes providing a graph database, the graph database representing workloads of the cloud computing environment as nodes and relationships between the workloads as edges, receiving a security policy, the security policy logically describing rules for the relationships between the workloads, determining, based on the security policy and the graph database, a list of violations, the list of violations including at least one relationship from the relationships between the workloads in the graph database, the at least one relationship being not allowed by at least one of the rules in the security policy, and providing the list of violations to a user.

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