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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2025
Filed:
May. 18, 2022
Applicant:
Sophos Limited, Abingdon, GB;
Inventors:
Neil Robert Tyndale Watkiss, Oxford, GB;
Jonathan Francis Caine, Abingdon, GB;
Timothy Rayment, Abingdon, GB;
Assignee:
Sophos Limited, Abingdon, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/40 (2022.01); G06F 8/65 (2018.01); G06F 9/451 (2018.01); G06F 16/215 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/20 (2013.01); G06F 8/65 (2013.01); G06F 9/452 (2018.02); G06F 16/215 (2019.01); H04L 63/083 (2013.01); H04L 63/1416 (2013.01);
Abstract
A threat management facility for an enterprise provides security services to a number of virtual compute instances executing on a remote cloud computing platform. In order to prevent or reduce an accumulation of records for abandoned compute instances, each new virtual compute instance is explicitly identified by a user (and optionally a template), and then compared to existing records to identify possible redundancies, which can be deleted or otherwise managed.