US 12,756,714 B2Granted

Privileged actions approval system

AssigneeDell Products L.P.

InventorsAnanthakrishnan Balakrishnan, Seema M. Tahaliyani, Yuanyuan Zhang

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Abstract

A computing system facilitates a privileged action approval system that receives approval for a user entity to perform a privileged action with respect to a protected computing resource or platform. One or more approval entities may be assigned by an administrative entity to approve execution of the privileged action, wherein the administrative entity is not assigned an ability to approve execution of the privileged action. The approval system may be configured with information indicative of the one or more approval entities and upon obtaining approval by the approval entities may direct, to the user entity, approval information, for example a token, that may comprise a request identifier. The approval system may determine whether a privileged action matches information associated with the request identifier and may facilitate execution of the requested action based on the requested privileged action being determined to match information associated with the request identifier.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method, comprising:

receiving, by at least one computing system comprising at least one processor, action approval entity configuration information comprising at least one approval entity indication indicative of at least one approval entity;
receiving, by the at least one computing system, at least one action request indicative of at least one first action to be performed by at least one action entity with respect to at least one computing resource;
directing, by the at least one computing system to the at least one approval entity, at least one action approval request comprising at least one action approval request indication indicative of at least one request for approval of the at least one first action indicated by the at least one action request;
responsive to the at least one action approval request, receiving, by the at least one computing system, at least one action acknowledgment comprising at least one action request acknowledgement corresponding to the at least one first action;
responsive to the at least one action acknowledgement, directing, to the at least one action entity, at least one first action approval indication indicative of a first permission to perform, by the at least one action entity, the at least one first action to result in at least one permitted first action;
receiving, by the at least one computing system, an action confirmation request comprising at least one action confirmation request indication indicative of at least one request for confirmation of at least one second action;
analyzing, by the at least one computing system, the at least one second action with respect to the at least one first action approval indication to result in at least one analyzed second action;
and
based on the at least one analyzed second action, directing, by the at least one computing system to the at least one computing resource, at least one second permission to perform the at least one second action.

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A computing system, comprising at least one processor configured to process executable instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:

receiving at least one action request indicative of a first action to be performed by at least one action entity with respect to at least one computing resource;
directing, to at least one approval entity, at least one action approval request comprising at least one action approval request indication indicative of at least one request for approval of the first action;
responsive to the at least one action approval request, receiving at least one action acknowledgment comprising at least one action request acknowledgement corresponding to the first action;
responsive to the at least one action acknowledgement, directing, to the at least one action entity, at least one first action approval indication indicative of a first permission to perform, by the at least one action entity, the first action to result in a permitted first action;
receiving, from the at least one computing resource, an action confirmation request comprising at least one action confirmation request indication indicative of at least one request for confirmation of at least one second action;
analyzing the at least one second action with respect to the at least one first action approval indication to result in at least one analyzed second action;
and
based on the at least one analyzed second action, directing, to the at least one computing resource, at least one second permission to perform the at least one second action.

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A non-transitory machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by at least one processor of at least one computing system, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:

receiving at least one action request indicative of a first action requested by at least one action entity to be executed with respect to at least one computing resource;
directing, to at least one approval entity, at least one action approval request comprising at least one action approval request indication indicative of at least one request for approval of the first action;
responsive to the at least one action approval request, receiving at least one action acknowledgment comprising at least one action request acknowledgement corresponding to the first action;
responsive to the at least one action acknowledgement, directing, to the at least one action entity, at least one first action approval indication indicative of a first permission with respect to performing the first action;
receiving, from the at least one computing resource, an action confirmation request comprising at least one action confirmation request indication indicative of at least one request for confirmation of approval to perform at least one second action;
analyzing the at least one second action with respect to the at least one first action approval indication to result in at least one analyzed second action;
and
based on the at least one analyzed second action, directing, to the at least one computing resource, at least one second permission indicative that the at least one computing resource has been approved to perform the at least one second action.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.