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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 2021
Filed:
Jun. 11, 2019
Applicant:
Sophos Limited, Abingdon, GB;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Sophos Limited, Abingdon, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/56 (2013.01); G06F 21/57 (2013.01); G06F 9/54 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/566 (2013.01); G06F 9/545 (2013.01); G06F 21/561 (2013.01); G06F 21/565 (2013.01); G06F 21/575 (2013.01);
Abstract
A security driver loads early in the boot process for a compute instance and detects processes that are subsequently launched and/or terminated. The detected processes can be recorded, and then scanned with any suitable malware scanning tool(s) once a user mode is available on the compute instance, including any processes that are terminated before such scanning tools are launched. After the operating system is installed and a user mode is available, other scanning tools may also be deployed (e.g., in the user mode) to augment security of the compute instance.