Symantec Corporation

Wei Lin

Alfred C Hartmann

Brendon Woirhaye

Charlotte Chang

Archana S Rajan

Leo Cohen

Christopher Alexander

Gary Sabala

Security from malicious attack is provided for a user environment running in a virtualized environment by a virtual security appliance (VSA) running outside of the user environment, but on the same computer system as the user environment. For example, a VSA running in a virtual machine can provide security for a user environment running in a second virtual machine. The separation of the VSA from the user environment enhances the robustness of the VSA against malicious attacks seeking to disable/bypass the protections of the VSA, while avoiding the costs and complexities of a physical security appliance.

Virtual security appliance

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Rowland Heights, CA, United States of America

Wei Lin