System and method for automatically selecting security virtual machines

Abstract

Disclosed herein are systems and methods of selecting security virtual machines (SVMs) for a virtual machine (VM) in a virtual infrastructure. In one aspect, an exemplary method comprises, forming a list of SVMs, wherein SVM performs security tasks for the VM, and VM includes a security agent configured to interact with the SVM, determining restriction requirements of the security agent and removing from the list SVMs not conforming to restriction requirements on limits of interaction area of the security agent, polling SVMs remaining on the list to determine network accessibility of said SVMs and removing inaccessible SVMs, for each accessible SVM remaining on the list, determining whether a marker of the SVM matches that of the security agent of the VM and removing SVMs whose markers do not match the marker of the security agent, and providing the list of remaining SVMs to the security agent of the VM.