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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 01, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2015
Ssh Communications Security Oyj, Helsinki, FI;
Tatu Ylönen, Espoo, FI;
SSH COMMUNICATIONS SECURITY OYJ, Helsinki, FI;
Abstract
Various mechanisms can be used for authorizing access between entities in a computing environment. Configuring such access may involve configuration data stored on one or more of the computing devices or stored externally to the computing devices. Various aspect are disclosed herein for collecting, analyzing, correlating, organizing, storing, using and/or displaying such information, for example in the form of pre-analyzed access relationships between entities in the computing environment. In accordance with an aspect access-related configuration information is collected from a plurality of entities and an access relationship between two or more entities is determined based on the configuration information. Information about the determined access relationship is stored in a non-volatile storage. The information identifies a source entity and a destination entity and the determined access relationship defines a user account associated with the source entity and authorized to log into a user account associated with the destination entity.