Data privacy awareness in workload provisioning

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10949545-B2
Application number	US-202016805859-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 2, 2020
Priority date	Jul 11, 2018
Publication date	Mar 16, 2021
Grant date	Mar 16, 2021

Abstract

Data privacy information pertaining to particular data hosted by a first workload provisioned to a first location can be received. The first workload can be monitored to determine whether the first workload is accessed by a second workload, determine whether the second workload is indicated as being authorized, in the data privacy information, to access the particular data hosted by first workload, and determine whether the second workload has access to the particular data hosted by the first workload. If so, information identifying the second workload and a manner in which the second workload accessed the particular data hosted by the first workload can be stored to a data storage.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method, comprising:
receiving data privacy information pertaining to particular data hosted by a first workload provisioned to a first location;
monitoring the first workload, the monitoring the first workload comprising:
determining whether the first workload is accessed by a second workload;
responsive to determining that the first workload is accessed by the second workload, determining whether the second workload is indicated as being authorized, in the data privacy information, to access the particular data hosted by first workload; and
responsive to determining that the second workload is not indicated as being authorized to access the particular data hosted by the first workload, determining whether the second workload has access to the particular data hosted by the first workload; and

responsive to determining that the second workload has access to the particular data hosted by the first workload, automatically storing, using a processor, to a data storage information identifying the second workload and a manner in which the second workload accessed the particular data hosted by the first workload.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
responsive to determining that the second workload has access to the data hosted by the first workload, automatically communicating a notification to a system or compliance administrator indicating that the first workload has been accessed by an unauthorized workload, the notification comprising the information identifying the second workload and the manner in which the second workload accessed the particular data hosted by the first workload.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
determining, based on the data privacy information, whether the first location is a location where the first workload is allowed to be provisioned;
responsive to determining that the first location is a location where the first workload is not allowed to be provisioned, determining whether there is an issue with the first workload regarding data privacy; and
responsive to determining that there is an issue with the first workload regarding the data privacy, automatically storing to the data storage information identifying the issue with the first workload regarding the data privacy.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
determining, based on the data privacy information, whether the first location is a location where the first workload is allowed to be provisioned;
responsive to determining that the first location is a location where the first workload is not allowed to be provisioned, determining whether there is an issue with the first workload regarding data privacy; and
responsive to determining that there is an issue with the first workload regarding the data privacy, automatically communicating a notification to a system or compliance administrator indicating the issue with the first workload regarding the data privacy.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the notification indicates that the first workload has been provisioned to a location that is not a location where the workload is allowed to be provisioned.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
determining, based on the data privacy information, whether the first location is a location where the first workload is allowed to be provisioned; and
responsive to determining that the first location is a location where the first workload is not allowed to be provisioned, automatically provisioning the first workload to a second location to which provisioning of the first workload is allowed based on the data privacy information.

7. The method of claim 6 , further comprising:
communicating the data privacy information pertaining to the particular data to a data privacy advisor application;
responsive to the communicating the data privacy information pertaining to the particular data to the data privacy advisor application, receiving from the data privacy advisor application locations allowed information and identifying, as candidate locations, locations indicated in the locations allowed information; and
selecting the second location from the candidate locations.

8. A system, comprising:
a processor programmed to initiate executable operations comprising:
receiving data privacy information pertaining to particular data hosted by a first workload provisioned to a first location;
monitoring the first workload, the monitoring the first workload comprising:
determining whether the first workload is accessed by a second workload;
responsive to determining that the first workload is accessed by the second workload, determining whether the second workload is indicated as being authorized, in the data privacy information, to access the particular data hosted by first workload; and
responsive to determining that the second workload is not indicated as being authorized to access the particular data hosted by the first workload, determining whether the second workload has access to the particular data hosted by the first workload; and

responsive to determining that the second workload has access to the particular data hosted by the first workload, automatically storing to a data storage information identifying the second workload and a manner in which the second workload accessed the particular data hosted by the first workload.

9. The system of claim 8 , the executable operations further comprising:
responsive to determining that the second workload has access to the data hosted by the first workload, automatically communicating a notification to a system or compliance administrator indicating that the first workload has been accessed by an unauthorized workload, the notification comprising the information identifying the second workload and the manner in which the second workload accessed the particular data hosted by the first workload.

10. The system of claim 8 , the executable operations further comprising:
determining, based on the data privacy information, whether the first location is a location where the first workload is allowed to be provisioned;
responsive to determining that the first location is a location where the first workload is not allowed to be provisioned, determining whether there is an issue with the first workload regarding data privacy; and
responsive to determining that there is an issue with the first workload regarding the data privacy, automatically storing to the data storage information identifying the issue with the first workload regarding the data privacy.

11. The system of claim 8 , the executable operations further comprising:
determining, based on the data privacy information, whether the first location is a location where the first workload is allowed to be provisioned;
responsive to determining that the first location is a location where the first workload is not allowed to be provisioned, determining whether there is an issue with the first workload regarding data privacy; and
responsive to determining that there is an issue with the first workload regarding the data privacy, automatically communicating a notification to a system or compliance administrator indicating the issue with the first workload regarding the data privacy.

12. The system of claim 11 , wherein the notification indicates that the first workload has been provisioned to a location that is not a location where the workload is allowed to be provisioned.

13. The system of claim 8 , the executable operations further comprising:
determining, based on the data privacy information, whether the first location is a location where the first workload is allowed to be provisioned; and
responsive to

Assignees

• IBM
• Green Market Square Ltd

Inventors

• Varga Sergio
• Borup Jørgen E
• Rotta Thiago Cesar
• Stelmar Netto Marco Aurelio
• Blöndal Kris

Classifications

• H04W4/02

  Services making use of location information · CPC title

• G06F21/6245 Primary

  Protecting personal data, e.g. for financial or medical purposes · CPC title

• G06F9/5088

  involving task migration · CPC title

• G06F9/542

  Event management; Broadcasting; Multicasting; Notifications · CPC title

• G06F9/505

  considering the load · CPC title