US 12,476,970 B2
Validation of cloud provider application programming interface (API) privileges
Suresh Balla, Visakhapatnam (IN); and Umedh Meshram, Pune (IN)
Assigned to VMware LLC, Palo Alto, CA (US)
Filed by VMware LLC, Palo Alto, CA (US)
Filed on Oct. 12, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/379,202.
Claims priority of application No. 202341053301 (IN), filed on Aug. 9, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2025/0055847 A1, Feb. 13, 2025
Int. Cl. H04L 9/40 (2022.01); G06F 9/54 (2006.01)
CPC H04L 63/10 (2013.01) [G06F 9/547 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus comprising:
interface circuitry;
machine readable instructions; and
programmable circuitry to at least one of instantiate or execute the machine readable instructions to:
access a privilege from a cloud account, the privilege associated with a resource to be deployed based on a template;
validate the privilege relative to template privileges specified in the template;
secure the resource before deployment of the resource by imputing a privilege access condition to the resource based on the privilege satisfying at least one of the template privileges; and
deploy the resource based on the template in a secured state, the secured state corresponding to the privilege access condition.