Information processing apparatus and method for controlling the same
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKenichi Okihara
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Abstract
An information processing apparatus, including a function of mandatory access control, includes a storage unit that stores a security policy for managing access by the mandatory access control, an obtaining unit that obtains information on vulnerability of an application, and an updating unit that updates the security policy by a function of a kernel thread in accordance with the information obtained by the obtaining unit.
Claims10
An information processing apparatus including a function of mandatory access control of forcibly controlling access to an execution process or a file, the information processing apparatus comprising:
- a storage unit configured to store a security policy for managing access by the mandatory access control;
- an obtaining unit configured to obtain information on vulnerability of an application;
- and
- an updating unit configured to update the security policy by a function of a kernel thread in accordance with the information obtained by the obtaining unit.
A method for controlling an information processing apparatus including a function of mandatory access control, the method comprising:
- storing a security policy for managing access by the mandatory access control;
- obtaining information on vulnerability of an application;
- and
- updating the security policy by a function of a kernel thread in accordance with the obtained information.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing computer executable instructions causing a computer to execute a method for controlling an information processing apparatus including a function of mandatory access control, the method comprising:
- storing a security policy for managing access by the mandatory access control;
- obtaining information on vulnerability of an application;
- and
- updating the security policy by a function of a kernel thread in accordance with the obtained information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.