Patent ID: 9282122
Filing Date: 2016-03-08
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A computing system implemented method for managing secrets of tenants of a multi-tenant computing environment, comprising: maintaining, by a service provider computing system, a service provider secrets policy, receiving, by the service provider computing system, a first tenant secrets policy from a first tenant computing system for a first tenant of the multi-tenant computing environment; receiving a request from the first tenant computing system to apply the first tenant secrets policy to at least one multi-tenant asset in the multi-tenant computing environment; in response to receiving the request from the first tenant computing system, comparing the first tenant secrets policy with the security requirements of the service provider secrets policy; if the first tenant secrets policy satisfies the security requirements, authorizing, with the service provider computing system, the request from the first tenant computing system to apply the first tenant secrets policy to the at least one multi-tenant asset; if the first tenant secrets policy fails the security requirements, rejecting the request from the first tenant computing system to apply the first tenant secrets policy to the at least one multi-tenant asset; and applying the first tenant secrets policy to the at least one multi-tenant asset if the request from the first tenant computing system is authorized.