Cloud service account management
AssigneeSkyhigh Networks, Inc.
InventorsSekhar Sarukkai, Kaushik Narayan, Rajiv Gupta
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Abstract
A cloud service account management method identifies unauthorized or unmanaged accounts making administration console access or API access at a cloud computing service and triggers a work flow to place the accounts under management. In one embodiment, the user device is directed to a registration portal to provide credentials of the unauthorized account. Once the accounts are made managed, the cloud service account management method can monitor the activities of the accounts and can apply compliance or security policies to the managed accounts.
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A method of implementing cloud service account management by an enterprise, the method comprising:
- identifying, using a hardware processor, traffic, wherein the traffic is associated with an access at a cloud computing service, the access made using an unmanaged account that is not managed by the enterprise;
- generating, using the hardware processor, a request to obtain credentials associated with the unmanaged account;
- receiving the credentials associated with the unmanaged account;
- in response to receiving the credentials associated with the unmanaged account, placing, using the hardware processor, the unmanaged account in a management mode so that the unmanaged account becomes a managed account;
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- monitoring, using the hardware processor, the managed account at the cloud computing service.
A system for implementing cloud service account management by an enterprise, the system comprising:
- a hardware processor;
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- a memory coupled with the hardware processor, wherein the memory is configured to provide the processor with instructions which when executed cause the processor to:
- identify traffic, wherein the traffic is associated with an access at a cloud computing service, the access made using an unmanaged account that is not managed by the enterprise;
- generate a request to obtain credentials associated with the unmanaged account;
- receive the credentials associated with the unmanaged account;
- in response to receiving the credentials associated with the unmanaged account, place the unmanaged account in a management mode so that the unmanaged account becomes a managed account;
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- monitor the managed account at the cloud computing service.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.