Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Harpreet Miglani

Patrick Simek

Roshane Silva

Mangalam Rathinasabapathy

Xinghuo Zeng

Nidhi Verma

Darius Snapkauskas

Le Chang

Roberta Cannerozzi

Phillip I Beish

Dylan Thomas Nunley

Brian Gregory O'connor

The techniques disclosed herein enable improved security as well as more scalable and reliable job execution by utilizing granular security boundaries and certificate-based authentication for all communication within cloud-based platforms. To manage a cloud-based platform, a system receives a plurality of jobs and associated certificates at a first security boundary that are to be executed at various resource units within a second security boundary. The system then authenticates each certificate before transmitting each job to its respective resource unit for execution. In addition, the system is further configured to monitor active certificates for compromise and accordingly isolate various security boundaries in the event of a security breach. By isolating portions of the cloud-based platform within security boundaries, the system can mitigate the impact of security breaches. Furthermore, certificate-based authentication addresses performance constraints to enable more efficient and scalable job execution.

Resource unit isolation for increased safety and security in cloud services

The techniques described herein facilitate scope-based certificate deployment for secure dedicated tenant access in multi-tenant, cloud-based content and collaboration environments. In some embodiments, a method is described that includes receiving an incoming authentication request from an access system, wherein the authentication request includes metadata, extracting the metadata from the authentication request, and processing the metadata to identify a tenant corresponding to the request. A tenant-specific certificate associated with the tenant is then accessed and provided to the access system for validation by a third-party certificate authority.

Scope-based certificate deployment

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