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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2018

Filed:

Mar. 30, 2017
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Brad L. Brech, Rochester, MN (US);

Scott W. Crowder, Pleasantville, NY (US);

Hubertus Franke, Cortlandt Manor, NY (US);

Nagui Halim, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);

Matt R. Hogstrom, Raleigh, NC (US);

Chung-Sheng Li, Scarsdale, NY (US);

Pratap C. Pattnaik, Ossining, NY (US);

Dimitrios Pendarakis, Westport, CT (US);

Josyula R. Rao, Briarcliff Manor, NY (US);

Radha P. Ratnaparkhi, Ridgefield, CT (US);

Michael D. Williams, Gardiner, NY (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/55 (2013.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/554 (2013.01); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 9/5083 (2013.01); G06F 21/55 (2013.01); G06F 2009/4557 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45587 (2013.01); G06F 2221/034 (2013.01);
Abstract

There is a method and system that includes establishing a security container that describes a workload and a set of resources that corresponds to the workload in a software-defined environment, determining a set of security criteria for the security container, monitoring the workload and the set of resources for security events based, at least in part, upon the set of security criteria, and responsive to identifying a security event, adjusting one or more security mechanisms. The steps of monitoring and adjusting are operated within the software-defined environment.


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