Method for Distributed Application Segmentation Through Authorization

• Main Authors: Sinha, Satyam, Styliadis, Dimitri
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 26.04.2018
• Subjects: ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION

Methods and supporting systems for managing secure communications and establishing authenticated communications between processes of a computer application operating across network domains are provided. Authentication agents operate on servers hosting application processes, wherein each authentication agent has access to policies related to each of the application processes. An authentication agent operating on an originating server intercepts transmissions from an originating application processes and appends a trust profile associated with the originating application process. The transmission is released to a receiving server, where it is intercepted and validated at the receiving server by a second authentication agent on the receiving server. If the validation succeeds the transmission is forwarded to the receiving application process where it is executed, processed or otherwise acted upon acted upon, and the receiving server provides an acknowledgement transmission to the originating server confirming the transmission was received and processed by the receiving application process.