PROTECTING DYNAMIC AND SHORT-LIVED VIRTUAL MACHINE INSTANCES IN CLOUD ENVIRONMENTS

摘要

The present disclosure relates to protecting temporary virtual machine instances in a cloud computing platform from security risks. An example method generally includes monitoring a cloud platform for the assignment of a temporary virtual machine instance to a workload. A security system obtains information about a configuration of the temporary virtual machine instance and applications deployed on the temporary virtual machine instance. Based on the configuration of the temporary virtual machine instance and applications deployed on the temporary virtual machine instance, the security system generates a security policy to apply to the temporary virtual machine instance.