Generating modular security delegates for applications

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9112682-B2
Application number	US-201113048142-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 15, 2011
Priority date	Mar 15, 2011
Publication date	Aug 18, 2015
Grant date	Aug 18, 2015

Abstract

Embodiments of the present teachings relate to systems and methods for generating modular security delegates for application instances, including, for example, applications usable on physical machines, virtualized environments, in the cloud, etc. According to embodiments, in a multiple network environment, multiple machines (or clients) can be configured, each having a defined security level. Each machine can include a plurality of application instances and corresponding security delegates for various defined security levels. For example, the defined security levels can be based on various authentication mechanisms, including, Kerberos, NT Lan Manager (NTLM) authentication protocol, secure sockets layer/transport security layer (SSL/TSL), token authentication, virtual private network (VPN), remote access security (RAS), digest authentication, etc.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
receiving, by an application executed by a processor, a first set of user authentication credentials, wherein the user authentication credentials comprise a first security level;
identifying, by the application, a first machine and a first application instance of the application that comprise the first security level;
identifying, by the first application instance of the application, a first security delegate among a plurality of sec…

Assignees

• Wood Thomas Alexander
• Eckersberg Ii John J
• Radez Daniel P
• Red Hat Inc

Inventors

• Wood Thomas Alexander
• Eckersberg Ii John J
• Radez Daniel P

Classifications

• H04L9/088 Primary

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• G06F21/33

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