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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 21, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 23, 2015
Lumension Security, Inc., Scottsdale, AZ (US);
Daniel M. Teal, Austin, TX (US);
Wesley G. Miller, Austin, TX (US);
Charisse Castagnoli, Austin, TX (US);
Toney Jennings, Horseshoe Bay, TX (US);
Todd Schell, San Antonio, TX (US);
Richard S. Teal, Media, PA (US);
LUMENSION SECURITY, INC., Scottsdale, AZ (US);
Abstract
Techniques allow runtime extensions to a whitelist that locks down a computational system. For example, executable code is not only subject to whitelist checks that allow (or deny) its execution, but is also subject to checks that determine whether a whitelisted executable is itself trusted to introduce further executable code into the computational system in which it is allowed to run. In general, deletion and/or modification of instances of code that are already covered by the whitelist are also disallowed in accordance with a security policy. Accordingly, an executable that is trusted may be allowed to delete and/or modify code instances covered by the whitelist. In general, trust may be coded for a given code instance that seeks to introduce, remove or modify code.