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Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2016

Filed:

Mar. 30, 2015
Applicant:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);

Inventors:

Hassan Sultan, Seattle, WA (US);

John Schweitzer, Virginia Beach, VA (US);

Donald Lee Bailey, Jr., Penn Laird, VA (US);

Gregory Branchek Roth, Seattle, WA (US);

Nachiketh Rao Potlapally, Arlington, VA (US);

Assignee:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/04 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/1433 (2013.01); H04L 63/20 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system and method for threat detection and mitigation through run-time introspection. The system and method comprising receiving a request to monitor a computing environment. Based on the received request, the system and method further includes determining a set of introspection points for monitoring the computing environment. receive a request to monitor a computing environment, measuring at individual introspection points of the set of introspection points to obtain a set of measurements, generating a graph of a set of resources in the computing environment, wherein the graph correlates individual resources in the set of resources to other resources based on at based at least in part on the set of measurements, and determining whether to perform a security action based at least in part on whether an evaluation of the graph indicates a threat to the computing environment.


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