At&t Intellectual Property I, LP

Rebecca Finnin

Jayaraman Ramachandran

Daniel Solero

Jason Godfrey

Craig Harvey

Amy Zwarico

Samantha Kossey

Luba Droizman

Christine Liu

A system and method for returning security policy requirements data based on user input that identifies a cloud environments, a service model, first or third party responsibilities, and/or code deployment information. A user provides answers to straightforward, generally non-expert questions directed to the user's cloud environment, first or third party responsibilities, and/or code deployment information for the user's scenario, e.g., technical workload. The answers result in determining which architecture layers apply (are in-scope architecture layers) relevant to the user's scenario. The in-scope architecture layers map to security requirements maintained in a security policy data store. The security requirements are returned (e.g., as a list) in response to the user's answers.

Determining relevant security policy data based on cloud environment

Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for tag-based security policy creation in a distributed computing environment. A security management module can receive an inventory event that relates to instantiation of a service. The security management module can identify the service that was instantiated and obtain a tag set that relates to the service. The tag set can include security tags that include a string that identifies a communications link associated with the entities included in the service that was instantiated. The security management module can identify policy rules associated with the security tags. The policy rules can define security for the service that was instantiated. The security management module can compute a security policy for the service and can provide the security policy to the computing environment for implementation.

Tag-based security policy creation in a distributed computing environment

Growing community of inventors

Atlanta, GA, United States of America

Rebecca Finnin