FAULT TOLERANT ZERO TRUST CONTROL PLANE

Organization Name

Dell Products L.P.

Inventor(s)

Victor da Cruz Ferreira of Rio de Janeiro – RJ BR

Roberto Nery Stelling Neto of Rio de Janeiro – RJ BR

Vicente J.P. Amorim of João Monlevade, Minas Gerais BR

Joubert de Castro Lima of Ouro Preto – MG BR

Vinicius Facco Rodrigues of São Paulo – SP BR

Werner Spolidoro Freund of Rio de Janeiro BR

FAULT TOLERANT ZERO TRUST CONTROL PLANE

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 20250133119 titled 'FAULT TOLERANT ZERO TRUST CONTROL PLANE

Original Abstract Submitted

one example method includes receiving, at a control plane of a zero trust (zt) architecture, a request to implement a proposed policy, forwarding the request to multiple policy engines of a blockchain policy engine, executing, by the policy engines, a consensus algorithm that decides whether or not the proposed policy will be implemented, wherein, as part of execution of the consensus algorithm, each of the policy engines performs a respective validation process with respect to the proposed policy, and when a consensus is reached by the policy engines, either implementing the proposed policy, or preventing implementation of the proposed policy, as dictated by the consensus.