Patent ID: 11949680
Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 10:
11. A computer program product embodied on a non-transitory computer readable medium, the non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon a sequence of instructions which, when executed by a processor, causes the processor to execute a set of acts comprising:
configuring a customer access control mechanism for a computing resource of a cloud infrastructure, wherein the computing resource managed by a cloud provider, and the customer access control mechanism comprises:
a set of access control profiles pertaining to access by a cloud provider operator to the cloud infrastructure resource; and
an access policy that comprises one or more access control profiles;

processing an access request from the cloud provider operator to access the computing resource of the cloud infrastructure; and
permitting the cloud provider operator to access the cloud infrastructure resource according to an approved access control profile, wherein access is provided to the cloud provider operator by:
modifying an operating system environment for the cloud provider operator into a modified operating system environment in which the access request is executed; and
creating a temporary user account for the cloud provider operator based at least in part upon the modified operating system environment; and

logging one or more activities by the temporary user account in the cloud infrastructure resource.