US 2013/0276089 A1 · METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPROVING SECURITY AND RELIABILITY IN A NETWORKED APPLICATION ENVIRONMENT

Abstract

A security application manages security and reliability of networked applications executing collection of interacting computing elements within a distributed computing architecture. The security application monitors various classes of resources utilized by the collection of nodes within the distributed computing architecture and determine whether utilization of a class of resources is approaching a pre-determined maximum limit. The security application performs a vulnerability scan of a networked application to determine whether the networked application is prone to a risk of intentional or inadvertent breach by an external application. The security application scans a distributed computing architecture for the existence of access control lists (ACLs), and stores ACL configurations and configuration changes in a database. The security application scans a distributed computing architecture for the existence of security certificates, places newly discovered security certificates in a database, and deletes outdated security certificates. Advantageously, security and reliability are improved in a distributed computing architecture.

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Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method for managing a distributed computing architecture, the method comprising:

discovering a resource within the distributed computing architecture;
determining a classification for the resource based on one or more classification criteria;
determining whether the classification corresponds to a record within a database;
and
if the classification corresponds to a record within the database, then incrementing a counter associated with the record;
or
if the classification does not correspond to a record within the database, then
initializing another record within the database that corresponds to the classification;
and
initializing another counter associated with the another record.

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Method and system for improving security and reliability in a networked application environment

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Method and system for improving security and reliability in a networked application environment

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Abstract

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