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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 28, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 02, 2015
Gravitant, Inc, Austin, TX (US);
Fenil Raj Kumar Santhi, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Kishor Grandhe, Round Rock, TX (US);
Balaji Narasimhan, Round Rock, TX (US);
Kedar Dave, Austin, TX (US);
Manish Mahesh Modh, Cedar Park, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Implementation of cross provider security in accordance with the disclosures made herein enables users of a system (e.g., a cloud services brokerage platform) in a cloud environment provides for system-managed provisioning and management of keys to cloud resources thereby allowing the user to manage data security and enable secured access to their cloud resources. To this end, cross provider security management functionality in accordance with the disclosures made herein can include provisioning system-generated keys across different regions in a provider, provisioning cloud brokerage system-generated keys across different providers; and associating (i.e., managing) the keys from the system to a hardware security module. The keys can be managed by/though a variety of different resources (e.g., brokering system, VDC, user group concepts, etc).