Security bypass environment for circumventing a security application in a computing environment
AssigneeWal-Mart Stores, Inc.
InventorWalter N. Scaife
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Abstract
Exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to performing an operation in a computing environment that is prohibited by a security application governing the computing environment. Exemplary embodiments can generate a security bypass environment in a computing environment governed by the security application to provide a bypass to the security application. In exemplary embodiments, a request to perform the operation can be received via the security bypass environment and the operation can be performed through the security bypass environment in response to satisfaction of access control criteria specified for the security bypass environment so that the performance of the operation bypasses the security application.
Claims24
A method of installing or executing a software application in a computing environment governed by a security application, the method comprising:
- executing a security bypass environment generated by a security bypass application, in a computing environment governed by the security application that prohibits installation or execution of untrusted software applications;
- installing or executing an untrusted software application in the computing environment via the security bypass environment and bypassing the security application in response to satisfaction of access control criteria associated with one or more access control procedures applied to the untrusted software application or a user associated with installation or execution of the untrusted software application;
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- wherein, the security application identifies the security bypass environment as a trusted application based on a digital certificate received from the security bypass application and the untrusted software application is installed through or executed in the security bypass environment such that the untrusted software application inherits security rights and permissions of the security bypass environment after the access control procedures are satisfied.
A system for performing an operation in a computing environment, the system comprising:
- a computing environment including a plurality of computing devices configured to be communicatively coupled to each other via a communications network, the computing environment being governed by a security application;
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- a processing device associated with one of the computing devices, the processing device being programmed to execute instructions from memory to:
- create a security bypass environment using a security bypass application, in a computing environment governed by the security application that prohibits installation or execution of untrusted software applications;
- install or execute of the untrusted software application in the computing environment via the security bypass environment and bypassing the security application in response to satisfaction of access control criteria associated with the one or more access control procedures;
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- wherein, the security application identifies the security bypass environment as a trusted application based on a digital certificate received from the security bypass application and the untrusted software application is installed through or executed in the security bypass environment such that the untrusted software application inherits security rights and permissions of the security bypass environment after the access control procedures are satisfied.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage device configured to store instruction executable by a processing device comprising:
- executing a security bypass environment generated by a security bypass application, in a computing environment governed by the security application that prohibits installation or execution of untrusted software applications;
- installing or executing an untrusted software application in the computing environment via the security bypass environment and bypassing the security application in response to satisfaction of access control criteria associated with one or more access control procedures applied to the untrusted software application or a user associated with installation or execution of the untrusted software application;
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- wherein, the security application identifies the security bypass environment as a trusted application based on a digital certificate received from the security bypass application and the untrusted software application is installed through or executed in the security bypass environment such that the untrusted software application inherits security rights and permissions of the security bypass environment after the access control procedures are satisfied.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.