Nutanix, Inc.
Providing control to tenants over user access of content hosted in cloud infrastructures

Abstract:

An aspect of the present disclosure provides control to tenants over user access of content hosted in cloud infrastructures. In one embodiment, a host node (of a cloud infrastructure) accepts a content item in encrypted form and an associated set of attributes from a tenant, and hosts the content item in encrypted form. Upon receiving a request from a user to access the content item, the node determines a set of attributes associated with the request, the determined set including at least one attribute originating at another host node of the cloud infrastructure. If the determined set of attributes matches the associated set of attributes, the node decrypts the content item to generate the content item in decrypted form and then provides access to the content item in decrypted form to the user as a response to the request.