Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC (20240406213). SECURE CROSS-TENANT ACCESS

SECURE CROSS-TENANT ACCESS

Organization Name

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Inventor(s)

Sucharit Sengupta of Bothell WA (US)

Gaurav Raghu Dhawan of Seattle WA (US)

Prasanna Chromepet Padmanabhan of Redmond WA (US)

Amar Dinesh Zavery of Redmond WA (US)

Artem Rudoy of Woodinville WA (US)

Kenneth Uchechukwuka Oyibo of Seattle WA (US)

Derek Xianyang Liu of Issaquah WA (US)

Prakash Narayanan of Redmond WA (US)

Rajesh Dadhia of Bellevue WA (US)

Ramachandra Ravitej Vennapusa of Bothell WA (US)

SECURE CROSS-TENANT ACCESS

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 20240406213 titled 'SECURE CROSS-TENANT ACCESS

Original Abstract Submitted

in a cloud computing environment, a cross-tenant access security measure includes monitoring conditional access policies for changes or additions that hamper or threaten to hamper an authorized access from an assistant tenant user to a focus tenant. in some cases, cross-tenant access security includes tracking a role assignment list to detect rogue roles, or to detect hampering role changes such as role deletions, or both. in some cases, focus tenant events and assistant tenant events are correlated in an audit. in some cases, the authorized access is a zero standing time bound access. in some cases, the authorized access is constrained to an ip address range, or constrained to login from a managed device, or both. in short, security measures are described that mitigate accidental or surreptitious role or policy changes that would shut down or hinder authorized cross-tenant access.