Patents by Inventor Ewan Chalmers

Ewan Chalmers has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Managing privileged system access based on risk assessment
    Patent number: 10938859
    Abstract: Managing privileged system access may be performed by a risk management system controlling user access privilege to production systems. One example method of operation may provide at least one of detecting an insecure user action at a user device, reducing an access privilege of a user profile associated with the user device to one or more privileged production servers, providing the user device with an application based on the insecure user action, determining that an outcome associated with the application has been achieved, and re-instating the access privilege of the user profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ewan Chalmers, Eileen Hayes, Michael J. Landers, Richard O'Mahony, Thierry Supplisson
  • MANAGING PRIVILEGED SYSTEM ACCESS BASED ON RISK ASSESSMENT
    Publication number: 20200007589
    Abstract: Managing privileged system access may be performed by a risk management system controlling user access privilege to production systems. One example method of operation may provide at least one of detecting an insecure user action at a user device, reducing an access privilege of a user profile associated with the user device to one or more privileged production servers, providing the user device with an application based on the insecure user action, determining that an outcome associated with the application has been achieved, and re-instating the access privilege of the user profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: Ewan Chalmers, Eileen Hayes, Michael J. Landers, Richard O'Mahony, Thierry Supplisson
  • Managing privileged system access based on risk assessment
    Patent number: 10454971
    Abstract: Managing privileged system access may be performed by a risk management system controlling user access privilege to production systems. One example method of operation may provide at least one of detecting an insecure user action at a user device, reducing an access privilege of a user profile associated with the user device to one or more privileged production servers, providing the user device with an application based on the insecure user action, determining that an outcome associated with the application has been achieved, and re-instating the access privilege of the user profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ewan Chalmers, Eileen Hayes, Michael J. Landers, Richard O'Mahony, Thierry Supplisson
  • MANAGING PRIVILEGED SYSTEM ACCESS BASED ON RISK ASSESSMENT
    Publication number: 20180069866
    Abstract: Managing privileged system access may be performed by a risk management system controlling user access privilege to production systems. One example method of operation may provide at least one of detecting an insecure user action at a user device, reducing an access privilege of a user profile associated with the user device to one or more privileged production servers, providing the user device with an application based on the insecure user action, determining that an outcome associated with the application has been achieved, and re-instating the access privilege of the user profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2016
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Inventors: Ewan Chalmers, Eileen Hayes, Michael J. Landers, Richard O'Mahony, Thierry Supplisson