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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 07, 2011
Paul Mackay, Provo, UT (US);
Paul MacKay, Provo, UT (US);
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented method for enforcing geolocation-based policies may include (1) identifying a request from a computing system to access a computing resource, (2) identifying a public key certificate associated with the computing resource, the public key certificate including location data that indicates where the computing resource may be accessed from, (3) determining a current location of the computing system, (4) determining that the location data within the public key certificate indicates that the computing resource may be accessed from the current location of the computing system, and (5) allowing access to the computing resource based on the determination that the computing resource may be accessed from the current location of the computing system. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.