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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 04, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 28, 2014
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Nataraj Nagaratnam, Cary, NC (US);
Jeffrey Robert Hoy, Southern Pines, NC (US);
Sreekanth Ramakrishna Iyer, Bangalore, IN;
Sridhar R. Muppidi, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A cloud infrastructure is enhanced to provide a context-based security assurance service to enable secure application deployment. The service inspects network and cloud topologies to identify potential security capabilities and needs. Preferably, these options are then surfaced to the user with easy-to-understand, pre-configured templates representing security assurance levels. When a template (e.g., representing a pre-configured assurance level) is selected by the user, the system then applies specific capabilities and controls to translate the user-selected generalized specification (e.g., 'high security') into granular requirements for a specific set of security resources. Preferably, the identification of these security resources is based on system configuration, administration, and information associated with the pre-configured template.