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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 17, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 24, 2017
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Keshav G. Kamble, Fremont, CA (US);
Vijoy A. Pandey, San Jose, CA (US);
Vaishali V. Pandya, San Jose, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
According to one embodiment, a method includes informing a second peer about a security issue in one or more secure transmission control protocol/user datagram protocol (TCP/UDP) using a first peer of the one or more TCP/UDP sessions. The method also includes performing at least one action at the first peer in response to detecting the security issue. The at least one action resolves the security issue, avoids the security issue, or resolves and avoids the security issue. Also, the at least one action includes informing, via a socket call or an extension of a socket call on the one or more TCP/UDP sessions, one or more applications operating on the second peer to limit information exchange based on a severity of the security issue. Other systems, methods, and computer program products are described in accordance with more embodiments.