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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:
Jul. 30, 2024

Filed:

Sep. 02, 2021
Applicant:

Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Manoj Sharma, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Choudhury Sarada Prasanna Nanda, Fremont, CA (US);

Ilya Beyer, Mill Valley, CA (US);

Maurilio Cometto, Redwood City, CA (US);

Assignee:

Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/00 (2013.01); G06F 11/34 (2006.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/102 (2013.01); G06F 11/3438 (2013.01); G06F 21/6281 (2013.01); H04L 63/108 (2013.01); G06F 2221/2141 (2013.01);
Abstract

In one embodiment, a system includes a computing device providing a computing environment including a number of user accounts, where each of the user accounts is assigned specified privileges to execute particular commands or programs, receiving a request to temporarily escalate privileges for one of the user accounts during a specified duration, where the request includes an identifier of the user account, requested privileges, and the specified duration, granting the requested privileges for the specified duration in conjunction with specific restrictions on one or more prohibited activities that are normally permitted for user accounts with the requested privileges, monitoring, during the specified duration, for any indication that the user account has attempted a prohibited activity, detecting an indication that the user account attempted one of the prohibited activities, and initiating an automated remediation corresponding to the indication.


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