Patent ID: 9578066
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method, comprising: responsive to a request by a requesting entity for an infrastructure change in an agile information technology environment, presenting by a server said requesting entity with a series of interrogatories in the form of individual questions and associated multiple choice responses, the interrogatories for determining, according to the requesting entity's selection of various ones of the multiple choice responses to the interrogatories, the requested infrastructure change to be provisioned and configured according to security requirements demanded for said data by one or more security policies, wherein said multiple choice responses are presented to the requesting entity dynamically such that each successive question and its associated responses are determined according to one or more of: determining, for the responses to the interrogatories, whether a pre-approved solution for the requested infrastructure change exists and, if so, generating a pre-approved recommendation for the requested infrastructure change, said pre-approved recommendation specifying deployment instantiation requirements for said requested infrastructure change; otherwise, generating a recommendation for the requested infrastructure change, said recommendation specifying deployment instantiation requirements for said requested infrastructure change and including a list of approvers required to approve the requested infrastructure change; and presenting the requesting entity with either the pre-approved recommendation for the requested infrastructure change, if it exists, or, if it does not exist, the recommendation for the requested infrastructure change with the list of approvers required to approve the requested infrastructure change.