ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,495, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Secure infrastructure as code (IAC) solution for deploying cloud resources" was invented by Arn Hyndman (Ottawa).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are techniques for a secure IaC solution for deploying cloud resources. A signed Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solution is received. A policy check is performed to determine that the signed IaC solution conforms to one or more policies. An automated validation of the signed IaC solution is performed to check for one or more compliance or security issues. A signature check of the signed IaC so...