Patent ID: 11930009
Assignee: OVERSEC, UAB
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A method in a virtual private network (VPN) environment, the method comprising:
receiving, at a processor from a user device, a credential request for accessing the VPN environment;
transmitting, by the processor to the user device, a short-term credential based at least in part on determining that the user device is not associated with an authenticated certificate; and
transmitting, by the processor to the user device, information associated with the authenticated certificate to enable the user device to exchange the short-term credential for a long-term credential; and
transmitting, by the processor to the user device, the long-term credential based at least in part on determining that the user device is associated with the authenticated certificate, wherein
the short-term credential provides access for performing a first set of operations and the long-term credential provides access for performing a second set of operations, the first set of operations being different than the second set of operations.