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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2010
Linda N. Betz, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Wesley J. Ho, San Francisco, CA (US);
Charkes S. Lingafelt, Durham, NC (US);
David P. Merrill, New Paltz, NY (US);
Linda N. Betz, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Wesley J. Ho, San Francisco, CA (US);
Charkes S. Lingafelt, Durham, NC (US);
David P. Merrill, New Paltz, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the invention provide a solution for securing information within a Cloud computing environment. Specifically, an encryption service/gateway is provided to handle encryption/decryption of information for all users in the Cloud computing environment. Typically, the encryption service is implemented between Cloud portals and a storage Cloud. Through the use of a browser/portal plug-in (or the like), the configuration and processing of the security process is managed for the Cloud computing environment user by pointing all traffic for which security is desired to this encryption service so that it can perform encryption (or decryption in the case of document retrieval) as needed (e.g., on the fly) between the user and the Cloud.