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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 03, 2009
William Gerald Mcgee, Ottawa, CA;
William Gerald McGee, Ottawa, CA;
Trend Micro Incorporated, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A distributed and coordinated security system providing intrusion-detection and intrusion-prevention for the virtual machines (VMs) in a virtual server is described. The virtualization platform of the virtual server is enhanced with networking drivers that provide a 'fast path' firewall function for pre-configured guest VMs that already have dedicated deep packet inspection security agents installed. A separate security VM is deployed to provide virtual security agents providing deep packet inspection for non pre-configured guest VMs. The network drivers are then configured to intercept the data traffic of these guest VMs and route it through their corresponding virtual security agents, thus providing a 'slow-path' for intrusion detection and prevention.