Selection of a countermeasure
AssigneesArizona Board of Regents, a body corporate of the State of Arizona, acting for and on behalf of Ariz, Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsJung Gun Lee, Chun-Jen Chung, Pankaj Kumar Khatkar, Tianyi Xing, Dijiang Huang
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Abstract
Examples disclose a method, executable by a processor, to assign a metric of vulnerability to a virtual machine. Based on the metric of vulnerability, the method places the virtual machine into a detection phase. Additionally, the examples disclose the method is to receive an alert corresponding to the virtual machine and based this received alert, the method implements a countermeasure.
Claims15
A network system comprising:
- an attack analyzer to
- assign a metric of vulnerability to a virtual machine, the metric of vulnerability indicates a likelihood of attack on the virtual machine,
- receive an alert corresponding to the virtual machine, and
- select a countermeasure based on the received alert;
- and
- a network controller to
- place the virtual machine into a detection phase based on the metric of vulnerability and
- implement the selected countermeasure.
A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium encoded with instructions that when executed by a processor cause the processor to:
- determine a metric of vulnerability corresponding to a virtual machine, the metric of vulnerability is a likelihood of attack on the virtual machine;
- place the virtual machine into a detection phase based on the metric of vulnerability;
- receive an alert indicating a type of vulnerability on the virtual machine;
- select a countermeasure based on the alert.
A method, executable by a processor, the method comprising:
- assigning a metric of vulnerability to a virtual machine;
- placing the virtual machine into a detection phase based on the metric of vulnerability;
- receiving an alert corresponding to the virtual machine;
- and
- implementing a selected countermeasure, the countermeasure selection based on the received alert.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.