Patent ID: 9560079
Date: 2017-01-31
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A method comprising: intercepting, by a policy engine process running on one or more computers associated with an organization, a communications packet that includes a cloud controller command and a command payload for managing a web application belonging to the organization in a cloud computing environment; determining, by the policy engine process, that a particular set of rules corresponds to the cloud controller command of the intercepted packet and that the intercepted packet does not comply with the particular set of rules, wherein the particular set of rules is one of a plurality of sets of rules, and each set of rules represents a respective policy of the organization and corresponds to a respective cloud controller command; in response, editing, by the policy engine process, the command payload of the intercepted packet to generate a modified packet that complies with the particular set of rules; and forwarding, by the policy engine process, the modified packet rather than the intercepted packet to the cloud computing environment.