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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 07, 2007
Christopher S. Linn, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jacques Vidrine, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Aaron Sigel, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Christopher S. Linn, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jacques Vidrine, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Aaron Sigel, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
It has been discovered that identifying files introduced into a system, particularly those originating from external sources, as being subject to security evaluation and deferring the security evaluation until access or attempted access of the file reduces security vulnerabilities of a system. A file introduced into a processing system is tagged with a security tag if the file is introduced via a supervised introduction point and/or introduced by a supervised program. Upon access or attempted access of the tagged file, security evaluation is initiated on the file.