Patent ID: 8984610
Filing Date: 2015-03-17
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: receiving by a secure boot server controlled by a tenant of a cloud provider data center, a request from a virtual machine to download components configured to boot the virtual machine, wherein the request includes at least a first token; transmitting, by the secure boot server to a first computing system, the first token; receiving, by the secure boot server from the first computing system, a second token indicating authorization to transmit unique components to the virtual machine in response to the request to download components; generating, by the secure boot server, unique components comprising at least one of: unique identifier, configuration settings, and unique data elements; and transmitting, by the secure boot server to the virtual machine, the unique components and the second token to initialize a boot process on the virtual machine, wherein the secure boot server is located within a tenant-controlled cloud demilitarized zone (DMZ) at the cloud provider data center and the virtual machine is located outside the tenant-controlled cloud demilitarized zone (DMZ) at the cloud provider data center, wherein the unique components comprise a unique initial ramdisk associated with the tenant of the cloud provider data center, and wherein the unique initial ramdisk comprises a public cryptographic key associated with a corresponding unique private key stored with the secure boot server.