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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 19, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2015
Security inspection of massive virtual hosts for immutable infrastructure and infrastructure as code
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Masayoshi Mizutani, Tokyo, JP;
Takahide Nogayama, Yokohama, JP;
Raymond H. P. Rudy, Tokyo, JP;
Scott R. Trent, Yokohama, JP;
Yuta Tsuboi, Tokyo, JP;
Yuji Watanabe, Tokyo, JP;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and system are provided for performing a security inspection of a set of virtual images in a cloud infrastructure. The method includes merging the virtual images into a tree structure having a root and a plurality of leaves such that child leaves and a parent leaf to the child leaves have common ones of the virtual images. The method further includes identifying a security violation in a given one of the virtual images at a given one of the plurality of leaves. The method also includes applying a bisection method against a path in the tree from the root to the given one of the plurality of leaves to find a particular one of the virtual images that is a root cause of the security violation. The method additionally includes performing a corrective action for any of the plurality of images having the security violation.