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Supporting Compliance in a Cloud Environment

a cloud environment and compliance technology, applied in the field of supporting compliance in the cloud environment, can solve the problems of not being able to achieve automation and continuous audit readiness monitoring, not being able to solve the total compliance requirements of these customers, and not always readily available data

Inactive Publication Date: 2012-07-12
INT BUSINESS MASCH CORP
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This is not a total solution to compliance requirements for these customers, though.
When using cloud services, this data is not always readily available, however.
If it is, it is usually not enabled for automation and continuous audit readiness monitoring.
However, in a cloud environment, a customer may not know where (e.g. which server computer) a particular application is running.
Consequently, customers may not be able to rely on collectors to gather and send back the audit data required for analysis.

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[0056]The following is a more detailed example of an Application Programming Interface (API) according to the invention. It will be readily recognized by those ordinarily skilled in the art that alternative API's may be realized in accordance with the invention, as well, and that the following is provided for illustration of at least one embodiment of the invention.

[0057]Authentication. In some embodiments, security may be required to prevent unauthorized gathering of auditable information from the cloud computing environment. In such embodiments, it may be useful to have a user or tenant authorization interface:

cloudAuthnRequest( )Authenticates a user to the cloudSyntaxtokenID cloudAuthnRequest(company, username,password);Parameterscompany - Name of the company for the given username - Name of the requestorpassword - Password for the requestorDescriptionAuthenticates the requestor to the cloud environment.ReturnReturns a unique token containing the requestors credentialinformation

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Gathering auditable data concerning actions in a cloud computing environment is automated by determining that one or more auditable data items are available associated with a requester and with at least one application program; responsive to determining that data items are available, transmitting a list of the available auditable data items to a requesting cloud client computer; subsequent to transmitting the list, receiving a data request from the cloud client computer for one or more particular auditable data items from the list; preparing the requested particular auditable data items for transmission according to a predetermined format; and transmitting the prepared requested particular auditable data items to the cloud client computer. Optionally, in some embodiments, the requesting cloud client computer may negotiate a data exchange format with the cloud service provider for receipt of the requested auditable information.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONSCLAIMING BENEFIT UNDER 35 U.S.C. 120[0001]This application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12 / 905,232, our docket AUS920100252US1, filed on Oct. 15, 2010, but Anne Louise Bolgert, et al.FEDERALLY SPONSORED RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT STATEMENT[0002]This invention was not developed in conjunction with any Federally sponsored contract.MICROFICHE APPENDIX[0003]Not applicable.INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE[0004]None.FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0005]The invention generally relates technologies to collect and maintain auditable data and information in a computing environment which is dynamic and scalable in nature, but in which the location and format of the storage of the data is not readily discernable by the customers of that data.BACKGROUND OF INVENTION[0006]A current trend in Information Technology (“IT”) is called “Cloud Computing”. Customers who utilize cloud environments can easily access services, application programs (“application...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): G06F15/16
CPCG06F11/3065G06F11/3006
Inventor BOLGERT, ANNE LOUISECOHEN, RICHARD JAYFORLENZA, RANDOLF MICHAELKALYANARAMAN, RAGHURAMAN
Owner INT BUSINESS MASCH CORP