Policy engine for cloud platform

A computer program product for enforcing organizational policies of an organization for web applications deployed in a cloud computing environment by users in the organization, the computer program product being encoded on one or more non-transitory computer storage media and comprising instructions that when executed by one or more computers cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:

• intercepting, by a policy engine installed on a device associated with the organization, a communications packet transmitted by a user device and intended for the cloud computing environment;
• determining that the intercepted communications packet comprises data including a cloud controller command and a command payload and that the cloud controller command relates to management of web applications in the cloud computing environment;
• in response to the determining, dispatching the intercepted communications packet to a rules engine corresponding to the cloud controller command;
• executing, by the rules engine, a set of rules representing a policy of the organization for web applications in the cloud computing environment, including editing the command payload in the intercepted communications packet according to the set of rules representing the policy;
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• forwarding the intercepted communications packet to the cloud computing environment if a result of execution of the set of rules by the rules engine indicates compliance of the intercepted communications packet with the policy.

A system for enforcing organizational policies of an organization for web applications deployed in a cloud computing environment by user in the organization, the system comprising one or more computers and one or more storage devices storing instructions that are operable, when executed by the one or more computers, to cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:

• intercepting, by a policy engine of the system, a communications packet transmitted by a user device and intended for the cloud computing environment;
• determining that the communications packet comprises data including a cloud controller command and a command payload and that the cloud controller command relates to management of web applications in the cloud computing environment;
• in response to the determining, dispatching the intercepted communications packet to a rules engine corresponding to the cloud controller command;
• executing, by the rules engine, a set of rules representing a policy of the organization for web applications in the cloud computing environment, including editing the command payload in the intercepted communications packet according to the set of rules representing the policy;
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• forwarding the intercepted communications packet to the cloud computing environment if a second result of execution of the set of rules by the rules engine indicates compliance of the intercepted communications packet with the policy.