US Patent 9794289 Applying security policies based on context of a workload

A workload to be provided by one or more network resources may be identified. The workload may be analyzed to determine one or more attributes of the workload. Furthermore, a general policy may be identified based on the one or more attributes of the workload. One or more security policies may be applied to a network resource that provides the workload. The one or more security policies may satisfy one or more requirements of the general policy.