公开(公告)号：US20240095351A1

公开(公告)日：2024-03-21

申请号：US17948104

申请日：2022-09-19

Applicant: VMware, Inc.

Inventor： Shirish VIJAYVARGIYA ,  Vasantha Kumar DHANASEKAR ,  Bidesh CHITNIS ,  Nakul Ranjan OGALE ,  Bharath Kumar CHANDRASEKHAR ,  Boris WEISSMAN ,  Robert James SPEAKER

IPC: G06F21/55 ,  G06F21/56

CPC classification number: G06F21/554 ,  G06F21/552 ,  G06F21/564

Abstract: In one set of embodiments, an enhanced next generation anti-virus (NGAV) system is provided. In certain embodiments, this system includes a hypervisor-level agent that backs up VM data only when an instance of a guest application running in the VM has been flagged by the NGAV system as being potentially malicious (rather than on a constant, proactive basis). Further, the hypervisor-level agent performs this backup only with respect to data modified by that specific guest application instance (rather than backing up all data modified by the VM) and writes the backed-up data to a secure storage location which is inaccessible to the guest. The combination of these features addresses many of the problems and inefficiencies of existing NGAV systems.