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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 2008
Filed:
Mar. 05, 2007
Applicants:
Aaron B. Brown, Croton on Hudson, NY (US);
John W. Sweitzer, Austin, TX (US);
Inventors:
Aaron B. Brown, Croton on Hudson, NY (US);
John W. Sweitzer, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 19/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention is a method and an apparatus for detecting dependability vulnerabilities in production IT environments. In one embodiment, a method for detecting a dependability vulnerability in a production IT environment includes injecting a synthetic disturbance into the production IT environment and observing the response of the production IT environment to the synthetic disturbance.