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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 15, 2017
British Telecommunications Public Limited Company, London, GB;
Fadi El-Moussa, London, GB;
Ian Herwono, London, GB;
British Telecommunication Public Limited Company, london, GB;
Abstract
A computer implemented method to determine whether a target virtual machine (VM) in a virtualized computing environment is susceptible to a security attack, the method comprising: training a machine learning algorithm as a classifier based on a plurality of training data items, each training data item corresponding to a training VM and including a representation of parameters for a configuration of the training VM and a representation of characteristics of security attacks for the training VM; generating a data structure for storing one or more relationships between VM configuration parameters and attack characteristics, wherein the data structure is generated by sampling the trained machine learning algorithm to identify the relationships; determining a set of configuration parameters for the target VM; and identifying attack characteristics in the data structure associated with configuration parameters of the target VM as characteristics of attacks to which the target VM is susceptible.