Sanitization of virtual machine images
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsSuresh N. Chari, Ashish Kundu
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Abstract
Sanitizing a virtual machine image of sensitive data is provided. A label for a sensitivity level is attached to identified sensitive data contained within each software component in a plurality of software components of a software stack in a virtual machine image based on labeling policies. In response to receiving an input to perform a sanitization of the identified sensitive data having attached sensitivity level labels contained within software components of the software stack in the virtual machine image, the sanitization of the identified sensitive data having the attached sensitivity level labels contained within the software components of the software stack in the virtual machine image is performed based on sanitization policies.
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A computer-implemented method for sanitizing a virtual machine image of sensitive data, the computer-implemented method comprising:
- attaching, by a computer, a sensitivity level label to identified sensitive data contained within each software component in a plurality of software components of a software stack in a virtual machine image based on labeling policies;
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- responsive to the computer receiving an input to perform a sanitization of the identified sensitive data having attached sensitivity level labels contained within software components of the software stack in the virtual machine image, performing, by the computer, the sanitization of the identified sensitive data having the attached sensitivity level labels contained within the software components of the software stack in the virtual machine image based on sanitization policies.
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