Compliance Aggregation for Hybrid Cloud Environments
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing technologies face challenges in aggregating compliance postures across hybrid cloud deployments, which involve multiple cloud form factors and technology platforms, leading to fragmented compliance validation and assessment.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method and system that receives security definitions and customer profiles, uses automated assessment tools to evaluate compliance, generates a compliance posture, and provides it to a reviewer for remediation recommendations, thereby aggregating compliance validation across disparate systems and domains.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If automated assessment tools are used to evaluate compliance across hybrid cloud deployments, then compliance validation efficiency is improved, but the complexity of aggregating compliance postures across multiple cloud form factors and technology platforms increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments compliance assessment by creating separate assessment modules for different cloud form factors (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) and technology platforms. Each module independently evaluates compliance for its specific domain, then results are aggregated into a unified compliance posture. This segmentation allows automated tools to efficiently assess each segment while managing the overall complexity of hybrid cloud environments.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary compliance aggregation layer that sits between the diverse cloud platforms and the compliance evaluation system. This intermediary standardizes compliance data from multiple sources, translating various cloud provider formats into a unified assessment model. This mediator enables efficient automated assessment while handling the complexity of aggregating across different platforms.
2Reliability
If comprehensive security definitions are enforced across all cloud deployments, then security compliance is improved, but the difficulty of assessing compliance across disparate systems increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal compliance assessment framework that can evaluate multiple cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, private clouds) using a single set of security definitions. The system maps platform-specific security controls to universal security requirements, enabling comprehensive security compliance enforcement across disparate systems while simplifying the assessment process through standardized evaluation criteria.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transforms complex security definitions into parameterized assessment rules that can be systematically applied across different cloud platforms. By converting security requirements into structured parameters with defined evaluation criteria, the system makes compliance detection and measurement more manageable while maintaining comprehensive security enforcement across heterogeneous environments.
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AI summary
A method includes receiving, by a computing device, security definitions from an owner of a cloud deployment; receiving, by the computing device, a customer profile having intents to use the cloud deployment; assessing, by the computing device and using automated assessment tools, compliance of the cloud deployment with the security definitions in view of the intents; generating, by the computing device, a compliance posture using the assessment; and providing, by the computing device, the compliance posture to a reviewer.