公开(公告)号：US20200236122A1

公开(公告)日：2020-07-23

申请号：US16255551

申请日：2019-01-23

Applicant: VMware, Inc.

Inventor： David OTT ,  Lei XU ,  Ruimin SUN ,  Vijay GANTI ,  Dennis R. MOREAU

IPC: H04L29/06 ,  G06F9/455

Abstract: A computer-implemented method and system for protecting a host computer in a computer network from security threats uses local security-relevant data for the host computer, as well as global security-relevant data for other components in the computer network downloaded from a security information plane system to the host computer, to determine a security threat to the host computer. When a security threat is determined to be a legitimate threat, a security alert is issued, and then an action is initiated in response to the security alert.