/Systems And Methods For Workload Identity And Access Management
Abstract

Described are methods and systems for workload identity and access management. The method comprises: receiving a request from a client workload to access a service workload; authenticating the client workload based at least in part on identifying information determined from a compute environment of the client workload; retrieving an access policy based at least in part on the client workload identity; generating or retrieving an access credential to access the service workload based at least in part on the access policy; and communicating data between the workload and the service based at least in part on the access credential.

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Described are methods and systems for workload identity and access management. The method comprises: receiving a request from a client workload to access a service workload; authenticating the client workload based at least in part on identifying information determined from a compute environment of the client workload; retrieving an access policy based at least in part on the client workload identity; generating or retrieving an access credential to access the service workload based at least in part on the access policy; and communicating data between the workload and the service based at least in part on the access credential.
Timeline
Filed
03/26/2026
Published
07/30/2026
Granted
Not Available
IPC Codes(4)
G06F 21/62:Protecting access to data via a platform, e.g. using keys or access control rules
H04L 9/08:Key distribution
H04L 9/30:Public key, i.e. encryption algorithm being computationally infeasible to invert and users' encryption keys not requiring secrecy