Patent ID: 11962660
Assignee: PALO ALTO NETWORKS, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method comprising:
impersonating a user of a cloud computing environment to obtain behavior information of the user;
analyzing the behavior information obtained for the user of the cloud computing environment, wherein the behavior information indicates behavior of the user corresponding to one or more data objects in the cloud computing environment that are associated with the user;
determining, from the behavior information, a plurality of exposure characteristics relative to the one or more data objects, wherein the plurality of characteristics comprises one or more user location access behavior characteristics, one or more temporal access behavior characteristics, one or more collaboration or sharing characteristics, and one or more login behavior characteristics;
identifying a plurality of rules corresponding to the plurality of exposure characteristics;
calculating one or more reputations of the user based on applying to the plurality of exposure characteristics the plurality of rules; and
indicating the one or more calculated user reputations to an entity with which the user is associated.