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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 13, 2012
Hemma Prafullchandra, Mountain View, CA (US);
Russell Weisz, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Renata Budko, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Eric Ming Chiu, Los Altos, CA (US);
Boris Belov, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Hemma Prafullchandra, Mountain View, CA (US);
Russell Weisz, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Renata Budko, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Eric Ming Chiu, Los Altos, CA (US);
Boris Belov, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Hytrust, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
An automated configuration management system (ACMS) oversees resources of a virtualized ecosystem by establishing a baseline configuration (including, e.g., security controls) for the resources; and, repeatedly, monitoring and collecting data from the resources, analyzing the data collected, making recommendations concerning configuration changes for the resources of the virtualized ecosystem based on the analysis, and either adopting and implementing the recommendations or not, wherein new states of the virtualized ecosystem and reactions to recommended changes are observed and applied in the form of new recommendations, and/or as adjustments to the baseline. The recommendations may be implemented automatically or only upon review by an administrator before being implemented or not. The various data may be analyzed according to benchmarks established for security and compliance criteria of the resources of the virtualized ecosystem, for example static/pre-defined or dynamically derived benchmarks/best practices.