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Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 2017

Filed:

Feb. 29, 2016
Applicant:

Mcafee, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Aditya Kapoor, Beaverton, OR (US);

Jonathan L. Edwards, Portland, OR (US);

Craig Schmugar, Hillsboro, OR (US);

Vladimir Konobeev, Mallow, IE;

Michael Hughes, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

McAfee, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/56 (2013.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); G06F 21/55 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/20 (2013.01); G06F 21/554 (2013.01); G06F 21/566 (2013.01); G06F 21/567 (2013.01); H04L 63/10 (2013.01); H04L 63/1416 (2013.01);
Abstract

Technologies for securing an electronic device include trapping an attempt to access a secured system resource of the electronic device, determining a module associated with the attempt, determining a subsection of the module associated with the attempt, the subsection including a memory location associated with the attempt, accessing a security rule to determine whether to allow the attempted access based on the determination of the module and the determination of the subsection, and handling the attempt based on the security rule. The module includes a plurality of distinct subsections.


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