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

Claim 6:
7. An apparatus comprising a computer processor, a computer memory operatively coupled to the computer processor, the computer memory having disposed within it computer program instructions that, when executed by the computer processor, cause the apparatus 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.