Inheriting security risks for cloud entities in a cloud computing system

Abstract

The disclosure focuses on using a risk inheritance system to actively prevent unauthorized and compromising activity within a cloud computing system by causing user risk scores to be inherited across downstream cloud entities within the cloud computing system. The risk inheritance system ensures that users with risky user risk scores are unable to circumvent the security measures of the cloud computing system through propagation events. For instance, the risk inheritance system assigns user risk scores to be inherited from a cloud entity of a user to another cloud entity, including other users and service principals, based on detecting the user initiating a propagation event. This way, the risk inheritance system improves the efficiency of the cloud computing system by ensuring that cloud entities are assigned accurate user risk scores.

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