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MIDDLE WARE SECURITY LAYER FOR CLOUD COMPUTING SERVICES

  • US 20170264619A1
  • Filed: 12/02/2016
  • Published: 09/14/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/11/2016
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of establishing a middle ware object security layer between an organization'"'"'s user systems and independent object stores, the method including:

  • combining active proxy analysis of object deposit to, retrieval from and sharing via the independent object stores with inspection of objects in the independent object stores, each of the analysis and inspection generating and persisting metadata of the objects, including;

    using a proxy interposed between the user systems and the independent object stores, actively controlling manipulation of proxy-subject objects on the independent object stores by applying rules that utilize the active proxy analysis and sensitivity metadata to actively control the deposit to, the retrieval from and the sharing via the independent object stores by the user systems; and

    inspecting proxy-bypassing objects on the independent object stores, and classifying and persisting sensitivity metadata of the proxy-bypassing objects deposited to and retrieved by users able to bypass the proxy and machines not subject to the proxy; and

    making the metadata available to the proxy to enforce policies based on the metadata.

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