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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 02, 2013
Globalfoundries Inc., Grand Cayman, KY;
Kelly Abuelsaad, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Don T. Bailey, Fort Worth, TX (US);
Shane B. McElligott, Apex, NC (US);
Hien Q. Nguyen, Beaverton, OR (US);
Susan M. Romero, Seattle, WA (US);
Jeffrey D. Young, Raleigh, NC (US);
GLOBALFOUNDRIES Inc., Grand Cayman, KY;
Abstract
An approach for monitoring and protecting electronic data in a networked computing environment (e.g., a cloud computing environment) is provided. In a typical embodiment, an activity monitor gathers characteristics of data traffic of one or more virtual machines. The data traffic is analyzed to determine whether any of the data traffic is indicative of a malicious activity (e.g., unauthorized data transfers). If it appears a VM is engaging in malicious activity, then a counter for the VM is incremented by a predefined value that is associated with the malicious activity. When the counter for the VM exceeds a point threshold, a remediation action is taken with respect to the VM.