US 12,242,633 B2
Regulation based protection of data for storage systems
Pierpaolo Tommasi, Dublin (IE); Marco Simioni, Dublin (IE); and Stephane Deparis, Dublin (IE)
Assigned to International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US)
Filed by INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US)
Filed on Apr. 11, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/658,797.
Prior Publication US 2023/0325523 A1, Oct. 12, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 21/62 (2013.01)
CPC G06F 21/6227 (2013.01) 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, by a processor, for providing enhanced data protection for storage systems in a computing environment, comprising:
identifying one or more queries received by a storage system;
fetching metadata comprising a geographical position of a user issuing the one or more queries;
defining each of the plurality of rules and administrative policies, wherein the plurality of rules or administrative policies apply operations which comprise legal, ethical, moral, or jurisdictional rules or policies, and wherein the defining further comprises:
defining the plurality of rules and administrative policies to one or more operations to perform for preserving data security; and
applying the plurality of rules and administrative policies to a write operation or a read operation using a machine learning operation;
parsing, concurrently to fetching the metadata, the one or more queries;
regulating approval or denial of transmission of data responsive to the one or more queries from the storage system a plurality of rules and administrative policies; and
in response to approval of the transmission, transmitting the data.