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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2024
Filed:
Aug. 09, 2021
Palo Alto Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Krishnan Shankar Narayan, San Jose, CA (US);
Palo Alto Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A graph representation of cloud resources and their relationships is generated and maintained to provide insights into impact of incidents affecting cloud resources on others in the cloud environment. Cloud resource data for the cloud resources are obtained and relationships among the cloud resources are determined. Relationships among the cloud resources are determined based on analysis of configuration data associated with the cloud resources from which relationships among cloud resources of different types can be inferred, and external sources may also be utilized to facilitate identification of relationships. A graph representation of the cloud resources and their determined relationships is built where the cloud resource data are stored in vertices with directed edges between the vertices representing the identified relationships. The graph can be analyzed based on various graph algorithms to analyze impact of misconfigured or compromised resources to identify related cloud resources that are or would be affected.