Patent ID: 11936719
Assignee: PURE STORAGE, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 12:
13. A computer program product disposed upon a non-transitory computer readable medium, the computer program product comprising computer program instructions that, when executed, cause a computer to carry out the steps of:
receiving, over a first network by a client-side array services module, user credentials associated with an access request to a storage system;
sending, over a second network by the client-side array services module to a cloud-based security module, the user credentials;
receiving, over the second network by the client-side array services module from the cloud-based security module, a token representing that the user credentials were successfully authenticated by the cloud-based security module; and
sending, over the first network by the client-side array services module to the storage system, the token with a management instruction, wherein the storage system is not coupled for data communications to the cloud-based security module.