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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 30, 2015
Applicant:
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventors:
Azeem Feroz, San Jose, CA (US);
Rahul Mathias Madan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Arnold Poon, San Mateo, CA (US);
Aditi Vutukuri, Atlanta, GA (US);
Assignee:
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01); G06F 12/14 (2006.01); G06F 12/16 (2006.01); G08B 23/00 (2006.01); G06F 21/56 (2013.01); G06F 9/455 (2006.01); G06F 21/53 (2013.01); G06F 21/57 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/566 (2013.01); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 21/53 (2013.01); G06F 21/561 (2013.01); G06F 21/575 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45587 (2013.01); G06F 2221/034 (2013.01);
Abstract
Aspects of the present invention include hypervisor based security using a hypervisor to monitor a VM. In embodiments of the present invention, the information gathered by the hypervisor in the monitoring is compared against a reference image to determine if there are possible rootkits present on the VM. If there are potential rootkits, the VM can be quarantined.