Cisco Systems, Inc.
Seamless rotation of keys for data analytics and machine learning on encrypted data

Abstract:

In one embodiment, a network assurance service maintains a first set of telemetry data from the network anonymized using a first key regarding a plurality of network entities in a monitored network. The service receives a key rotation notification indicative of a key changeover from the first key to a second key for anonymization of a second set of telemetry data from the network. The service forms, during a key rotation time period associated with the key changeover, a mapped dataset by converting anonymized tokens in the second set of telemetry data into anonymized tokens in the first set of telemetry data. The service augments, during the key rotation time period, the first set of telemetry data with the mapped dataset. The service assesses, during the time period, performance of the network by applying a machine learning-based model to the first set of telemetry data augmented with the mapped dataset.