Automatic curation and modification of virtualized computer programs

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8959577-B2
Application number	US-201313863133-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 15, 2013
Priority date	Apr 13, 2012
Publication date	Feb 17, 2015
Grant date	Feb 17, 2015

Abstract

In an embodiment, a data processing method comprises receiving computer program data at a security unit having one or more processors; implementing one or more security-related modifications to the computer program data, resulting in creating modified computer program data; executing the modified computer program data in a monitored environment; analyzing output from the modified computer program data and identifying one or more variances from an expected output; performing a responsive action selected from one or more of: disabling one or more security protections that have been implemented in the modified computer program data; reducing or increasing the stringency of one or more security protections that have been implemented in the modified computer program data; updating the security unit based on the variances.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
receiving computer program data at a security unit having one or more processors;
implementing one or more security-related modifications to the computer program data, resulting in creating modified computer program data;
executing the modified computer program data in a monitored environment;
analyzing output from the modified computer program data and identifying one or more variances from an expected output;…

Assignees

• Cisco Tech Inc

Inventors

• Epstein Joe

Classifications

• G06F2009/45587

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F21/53

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F21/604 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04L63/20 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G06F9/45558

  Physics · mapped topic