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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 17, 2008
Jin-shi Lee, Taipei, TW;
Mu-pen Tsai, Taipei, JP;
Jin-Shi Lee, Taipei, TW;
Mu-Pen Tsai, Taipei, JP;
Trend Micro Incorporated, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A technique for protecting a high availability device in a computer network includes deploying an appliance between the high availability device and a network connection. The high availability device may be a device configured for a manufacturing operation, such as wafer fabrication, for example. The appliance may be a transparent security appliance with a scanning engine for scanning packets for malicious content, such as computer viruses or worms, for example. Scanning control information can be supplied to the appliance by way of either a removable storage medium or a secure server coupled to the appliance, for example. The scanning control information can include a patch update, perhaps with signatures of viruses and associated control instructions. The appliance can then block any malicious content entering the appliance in response to the scanning control information. Among other advantages, the technique allows for low-cost, plug-and-play protection of high availability devices with good scalability to larger network configurations.