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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2016
Mastercard International Incorporated, Purchase, NY (US);
Douglas Paul Forguson, Richmond Heights, MO (US);
Weihua Zhou, Chesterfield, MO (US);
Srinivas M. Gummididala, Telangana, IN;
MasterCard International Incorporated, Purchase, NY (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods of centralized, global secure shell (SSH) key administration and management are provided, where a secure file transfer protocol (SFTP) application programming interface (API) can be leveraged to integrate centralized SSH key administration across any and all SFTP API or other file transfer installations. This allows an administrative entity to use a central server, for example, to perform client and server SSH key administration and management (e.g., SSH key creation, removal, distribution, and expiration reporting/tracking), scheduling, configuration updates, and the like across an unlimited number of file transfer installations and platforms (and therefore, is also scalable). A single management interface can be utilized for viewing and updating SSH keys for applications, and SSH keys can be propagated to application servers where the SSH keys can be activated based on a scheduled time.