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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 2023
Filed:
May. 31, 2019
Varmour Networks, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Marc Woolward, Bude, GB;
Keith Stewart, San Francisco, CA (US);
Timothy Eades, Redwood City, CA (US);
Meng Xu, Los Altos, CA (US);
Myo Zarny, Bayside Hills, NY (US);
Matthew M. Williamson, Marblehead, MA (US);
Jason Parry, San Francisco, CA (US);
Hong Xiao, San Jose, CA (US);
Hsisheng Wang, Fremont, CA (US);
Cheng-Lin Hou, San Jose, CA (US);
vArmour Networks, Inc., Los Altos, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems for managing security in a cloud computing environment are provided. Exemplary methods include: gathering data about workloads and applications in the cloud computing environment; updating a graph database using the data, the graph database representing the workloads of the cloud computing environment as nodes and relationships between the workloads as edges; receiving a security template, the security template logically describing targets in the cloud computing environment to be protected and how to protect the targets; creating a security policy using the security template and information in the graph database; and deploying the security policy in the cloud computing environment.