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SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HIGH AVAILABILITY OF HARDWARE SECURITY MODULES FOR CLOUD-BASED WEB SERVICES

  • US 20150358312A1
  • Filed: 05/28/2015
  • Published: 12/10/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/05/2014
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A system to support high availability (HA) of hardware security modules (HSMs) for cloud-based web services, comprising:

  • an HSM HA domain including a plurality of HSM adapters, wherein each of the HSM adapters further comprises;

    a plurality of active HSM partitions running on each of the HSM adapters, wherein each of the HSM partitions is configured to perform key management and crypto operations offloaded from a web service host;

    an HSM managing virtual machine (VM) running on a host, which in operation, is configured to;

    monitor load information on key management and crypto operations currently being performed by the HSM partitions running on the HSM adapters in the HSM HA domain;

    identify one or more second HSM partitions running on the HSM adapters if a first HSM partition serving the offloaded key management and crypto operations is determined to be overloaded based on the load information;

    distribute at least a portion of the offloaded key management and crypto operations from the first HSM partition to the second HSM partitions.

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