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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:
Jan. 14, 2020

Filed:

Jun. 22, 2018
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 computer program product and computer system that includes program instructions programmed to identify, in a software-defined environment, a security container describing a workload and a set of resources required by the workload, the security container including self-describing sub-containers having associated metadata describing content of a respectively corresponding sub-container; determine, for the workload, a set of resource-divisible portions of the workload including a compute-resource portion; generate a plurality of sub-containers within the security container, a sub-container within the plurality of sub-containers being a self-describing sub-container having associated metadata describing the content of the sub-container representing only one resource-divisible portion, the sub-container being an operating system sub-container; and responsive to identifying a security event while processing the workload, adjust a security mechanism associated with the security container. The plurality of sub-containers represents an end-to-end run time environment for processing the workload.


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