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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.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2015

Filed:

Apr. 15, 2013
Applicant:

Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Inventor:

Joe Epstein, Plesanton, CA (US);

Assignee:

Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/00 (2006.01); G06F 21/60 (2013.01); G06F 21/53 (2013.01); G06F 9/455 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/604 (2013.01); G06F 21/53 (2013.01); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45587 (2013.01);
Abstract

In an embodiment, a data processing method comprises receiving computer program data at a security unit having one or more processors; implementing one or more security-related modifications to the computer program data, resulting in creating modified computer program data; executing the modified computer program data in a monitored environment; analyzing output from the modified computer program data and identifying one or more variances from an expected output; performing a responsive action selected from one or more of: disabling one or more security protections that have been implemented in the modified computer program data; reducing or increasing the stringency of one or more security protections that have been implemented in the modified computer program data; updating the security unit based on the variances.


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