METHODS AND SYSTEMS THAT MONITOR SYSTEM-CALL-INTEGRITY

    公开(公告)号:US20240134961A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-04-25

    申请号:US17970168

    申请日:2022-10-19

    Applicant: VMware, Inc

    CPC classification number: G06F21/52 G06F21/57

    Abstract: The current document is directed to automated methods and systems that monitor system-call execution by operating systems in order to detect operating-system corruption. A disclosed implementation of the currently disclosed automated system-call-integrity monitor generate operational system-call fingerprints for randomly selected system calls executed by guest operating systems of randomly selected virtual machines and compares the operational system-call fingerprints to reference system-call fingerprints in order to detect operational anomalies of guest operating systems that are likely to represent guest-operating-system corruption. In disclosed implementations, a system-call fingerprint includes a system-call execution time, the number of instructions executed during execution of the system call, and a snapshot of the call stack taken during execution of the system call. The currently disclosed methods and systems can be used to monitor the system-call integrity of discrete computer systems, including personal computers, as well as computer-system clusters and aggregations.

    FAST DEPLOYMENT OF MACHINES IN AN SDDC
    2.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20230222361A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-07-13

    申请号:US17966821

    申请日:2022-10-15

    Applicant: VMware, Inc.

    CPC classification number: G06N5/022 G06F8/60 G06F9/452

    Abstract: Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for deploying machines for users in a software-defined datacenter (SDDC). The method in some embodiments is performed by a host computer that executes one or more machines. The method formulates a prediction regarding a particular user that is likely to log into a particular machine (e.g., virtual machine (VM), Pod, container, etc.) executing on a host computer of the SDDC in a future time period. Before the user logs into the particular machine, the method pre-fetches from a server a set of rules for a set of network elements that will process data messages associated with the machine after the particular user starts using the particular machine. The method uses the pre-fetched set of rules to configure the set of network elements to process data messages from the particular machine when the particular user logs into the machine during the time period. On the other hand, the method discards the pre-fetched set of rules when the particular user does not log into the particular machine during the time period.

    CONTAINER SECURITY MANAGEABILITY
    5.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240022588A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-01-18

    申请号:US17950234

    申请日:2022-09-22

    Applicant: VMWARE, INC.

    CPC classification number: H04L63/1433 H04L63/20

    Abstract: Computer-implemented methods, media, and systems for providing container security manageability are disclosed. In one computer-implemented method, a host device connected to a cloud server detects an event of a plurality of events generated by a plurality of containers hosted in the host device. The host device identifies container context data of the event, associates the container context data with the event, sends the container context data to the cloud server for security analysis. The host device receives, from the cloud server, security rules based on the security analysis and implements the security rules.

    DOMAIN NAME SERVICE (DNS) SERVER CACHE TABLE VALIDATION

    公开(公告)号:US20230188497A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-06-15

    申请号:US18106153

    申请日:2023-02-06

    Applicant: VMware, Inc.

    CPC classification number: H04L61/4552 H04L61/103 H04L61/4511

    Abstract: In some embodiments, a method stores domain name system (DNS) resolution mappings from a domain name to an address in a first table. The DNS resolution mappings are intercepted from DNS responses being sent by a DNS server. The first table is sent to a manager for validation of the DNS resolution mappings. Then, a second table is received from the manager that contains validated DNS resolution mappings. The method intercepts a DNS response that includes a domain name to address resolution mapping from the DNS server and validates the domain name to address resolution mapping using a validated DNS resolution mapping in the second table.

    Domain name service (DNS) server cache table validation

    公开(公告)号:US11575646B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-02-07

    申请号:US16874706

    申请日:2020-05-15

    Applicant: VMWARE, INC.

    Abstract: In some embodiments, a method stores domain name system (DNS) resolution mappings from a domain name to an address in a first table. The DNS resolution mappings are intercepted from DNS responses being sent by a DNS server. The first table is sent to a manager for validation of the DNS resolution mappings. Then, a second table is received from the manager that contains validated DNS resolution mappings. The method intercepts a DNS response that includes a domain name to address resolution mapping from the DNS server and validates the domain name to address resolution mapping using a validated DNS resolution mapping in the second table.

    MITIGATING SERVICE OVERRUNS
    8.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20220109629A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-04-07

    申请号:US16952212

    申请日:2020-11-19

    Applicant: Vmware, Inc.

    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method for preventing a service executing on a host machine from overrunning. The method receives, by the service running on the host machine, one or more packets via a data path. The method determines that the service is in or approaching an overrun state. Upon the determining, the method identifies a set of one or more virtual computing instances (VCIs) running on the host machine, and sends, via a first path different than the data path, a set of one or more signals to the set of VCIs, the one or more signals indicating to the set of VCIs to slow down transmitting network traffic via the data path.

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