Patent ID: 9686299
Date: 2017-06-20
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method, comprising: obtaining, by a device, information regarding a first security situation for a set of computing resources associated with a cloud-based platform, determining, by the device, a first threat assessment level, of a set of threat assessment levels, for the first security situation based on the information regarding the first security situation; determining, by the device, a second security situation associated with a second threat assessment level of the set of threat assessment levels, determining, by the device, that the information regarding the first security situation satisfies a set of threshold criteria for the first threat assessment level; determining, by the device and based on the first threat assessment level, an allocation of a second quantity of computing resources, causing, by the device and based on the information regarding the first security situation satisfying the set of threshold criteria for the first threat assessment level, the allocation of the second quantity of computing resources to be implemented.