US 2018/0026987 A1 · SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORK BASED DYNAMIC ACCESS CONTROL IN A CLOUD

Abstract

A system for providing access control in a cloud includes a software defined network including a software defined network controller. The system is configured to authenticate user access using multi-factor authentication. If the user is authorized to access a cloud resource the software defined network controller sends instructions to insert layer 3 and 4 user-specific flows to a software defined network device connected to the cloud resource. The user-specific flows cause the software defined network device to grant access to the cloud resource to the user.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method comprising:

receiving in a server a request from a user to access a cloud resource;
receiving user authentication information in the server;
comparing the user authentication information to a profile to determine if the user is authorized to access the cloud resource;
if the user is authorized to access the cloud resource, sending to a software defined network controller, instructions to insert layer 3 and 4 user-specific flows to a software defined network device connected to the cloud resource wherein the user-specific flows cause the software defined network device to grant access to the cloud resource to the user.

1 more element

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

15/215,860Filed 21 Jul 2016

Published

25 Jan 2018

Term ends

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Classification7 codes

H04L 63/102
For controlling access to devices or network resources: entity profiles
H04L 63/0227
For separating internal from external traffic, e.g. firewalls: filtering policies
H04L 63/0823
For authentication of entities: using certificates
H04L 63/083
For authentication of entities: using passwords

Systems and methods for providing software defined network based dynamic access control in a cloud

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Systems and methods for providing software defined network based dynamic access control in a cloud

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Abstract

Claims20