International Business Machines Corporation

Rohan Gandhi

Ching-Yun Chao

John Yow-Chun Chang

Lewis Lo

Leonardo A Uzcategui

Ki Hong Park

Yuhsuke Kaneyasu

Barbara J Vander Weele

Ankit Patel

Kin Ueng

Iqbal M Umair

Patrick L Davis

Hugh Edward Hockett

Ajay Arvind Apte

Li Yi

Scott Christopher Moonen

Matthew D McClintock

Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks are mitigated by a CSRF mechanism executing at a computing entity. The CSRF mechanism is operative to analyze information associated with an HTTP request for a resource. The HTTP request typically originates as an HTTP redirect from another computing entity, such as an enterprise Web portal. Depending on the nature of the information associated with the HTTP request, the HTTP request may be rejected because the CSRF mechanism determines that the request is or is likely associated with a CSRF attack. To facilitate this determination, the approach leverages a new type of 'referer' attribute, a trustedReferer, which indicates that the request originates from a server that has previously established a trust relationship with the site at which the CSRF mechanism executes. The trustedReferer attribute typically is set by the redirecting entity, and in an HTTP request header field dedicated for that attribute.

Guarding against cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks

A new management node associated with a new rack sends at least a public key of the new management node to a first management node associated with a first rack and a plurality of autonomous management nodes. The first management node sends the new management node an access token trusted by at least a portion of the plurality of autonomous management nodes and a set of public keys corresponding to at least a portion of the plurality of autonomous management nodes. The new management node can send its public key and the access token to at least a portion of the plurality of autonomous management nodes. In response, the new management node can establish a mutual trust relationship with at least a portion of the plurality of autonomous management nodes.

Sponsored trust relationship management between multiple racks

A construct having a plurality of distributed resources can include a portion of a second rack having a plurality of computing devices controlled by a second management node. The second management node can determine it contains insufficient construct data such as user data, group data, resource data, or authorization policy data to execute an operation associated with the construct. The second management node can synchronize at least a portion of construct data with a first management node. The first management node can be associated with the construct and a mutual trust relationship can exist between the first management node and the second management node. The first management node and the second management node can comprise autonomous management nodes capable of functioning independent of the network.

Construct data management between loosely coupled racks

A first management node of a first rack can be registered to a shared file storage system by establishing a mutual trust relationship between the first management node and the shared file storage system. The first management node can access a plurality of respective public keys and a plurality of respective certificates of authority that are stored in the shared file storage system and associated with a plurality of respective registered management nodes. The first management node can store a public key and a certificate of authority in the shared file storage system. The first management node can form mutual trust relationships with other registered management nodes. The first management node can validate authenticity of messages received from registered management nodes of the plurality of registered management nodes using a respective public key and a respective certificate of authority associated with a respective registered management node sending a message.

Trust relationship management amongst racks in a data center

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