Patents by Inventor Kirushna Kumaar GANESAN

Kirushna Kumaar GANESAN 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).

  • Gatekeeper resource to protect cloud resources against rogue insider attacks
    Patent number: 11777938
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for protecting cloud resources. The methods and systems may use a virtual gatekeeper resource to enforce secure access controls to cloud resources for a list of privileged operations. The cloud resources and the virtual gatekeeper resource may be in different security domains within a cloud computing system and the cloud resources may be linked to the virtual gatekeeper resource. A request may be sent to perform a privileged operation on the cloud resource. Access may be provided to the virtual gatekeeper resource in response to approval of the request and the access to the virtual gatekeeper resource may be used to perform the privileged operation on the cloud resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Neeraj Jain, Vijayendra Gopalrao Vasu, Vijay Krishna Tandra Sistla, Kirushna Kumaar Ganesan, Sumit Malhotra
  • GATEKEEPER RESOURCE TO PROTECT CLOUD RESOURCES AGAINST ROGUE INSIDER ATTACKS
    Publication number: 20220094686
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for protecting cloud resources. The methods and systems may use a virtual gatekeeper resource to enforce secure access controls to cloud resources for a list of privileged operations. The cloud resources and the virtual gatekeeper resource may be in different security domains within a cloud computing system and the cloud resources may be linked to the virtual gatekeeper resource. A request may be sent to perform a privileged operation on the cloud resource. Access may be provided to the virtual gatekeeper resource in response to approval of the request and the access to the virtual gatekeeper resource may be used to perform the privileged operation on the cloud resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Inventors: Neeraj JAIN, Vijayendra Gopalrao VASU, Vijay Krishna TANDRA SISTLA, Kirushna Kumaar GANESAN, Sumit MALHOTRA