Patent ID: 11888875
Assignee: MUSARUBRA US LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 15:
16. A non-transitory storage medium deployed as part of a cybersecurity system operating as a cloud-based service that comprises administrative control logic, including at least a key management module and a consumption quota monitoring module, that during execution performs operations comprising:
assigning a first key to a subscriber;
generating one or more virtual keys based at least in part on the first key, each virtual key of the one or more virtual keys is set with a usage restriction to permit use of the virtual key when provided from a network device having a network address residing within a selected network address range;
providing the one or more virtual keys to the subscriber for distribution, each virtual key of the one or more virtual keys to be included as part of a submission made by the subscriber to the cybersecurity system to authenticate the subscriber and verify that the subscriber is authorized to perform one or more tasks associated with the submission;
monitoring a number of submissions received from the subscriber; and
determining compliance with subscription entitlements by the administrative control logic, the subscription entitlements include a first threshold representing a number of active virtual keys that are made available to the subscriber and a second threshold representing a number of submissions made by the subscriber during a prescribed time period.