Patent ID: 11916926
Assignee: WIZ, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 12:
13. A system for detecting potential lateral movement in a cloud computing environment comprising:
a processing circuitry; and
a memory, the memory containing instructions that, when executed by the processing circuitry, configure the system to:
detect a private encryption key including a first hash value of a public key;
detect a certificate including a second hash value of another public key, the detected certificate associated with a workload in the cloud computing environment;
generate in a security database: a representation of the private encryption key, a representation of the certificate, and a representation of the workload, wherein the representation of the workload is associated to the representation of the certificate
associate the representation of the private key and the representation of the certificate, in response to determining a match between the first hash value and the second hash value;
determine that the workload is potentially compromised, in response to receiving an indication that an element of the public key is compromised;
generate a lateral movement simulation in response to indicating that the workload is simulated as compromised; and
tag the workload with a compromised simulation indicator.