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US 8,621,608 B2Granted
System, method, and computer program product for dynamically adjusting a level of security applied to a system
AssigneeMcAfee, Inc.
InventorGregory William Dalcher
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Abstract
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for dynamically adjusting a level of security applied to a system. In use, predetermined activity that is at least potentially associated with unwanted activity is identified on a system. Further, a level of security applied to the system is dynamically adjusted, in response to the identification of the predetermined activity.
Claims21
A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions stored thereon to cause one or more processors to:
- determine, by a device, an absence of a first activity that was previously identified on the device, wherein the first activity is predetermined to be associated with an increased vulnerability of the device to unwanted data, and wherein the absence is determined utilizing a first level of monitoring of the device;
- dynamically adjust to a second level of monitoring of the device in response to the determination of the absence of the first activity, wherein the second level of monitoring of the device comprises monitoring for one or more fewer types of accesses performed by the first activity, the one or more fewer types of accesses representing a subset of types of accesses being monitored utilizing the first level of monitoring;
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- dynamically adjust from a first level of scanning to a second level of scanning in response to the identification of the first activity, wherein the first level of scanning comprises scanning a first subset of a memory local to the device for the unwanted data and the second level of scanning comprises scanning a second subset of the memory local to the device for the unwanted data.
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A method, comprising:
- determining, with a processor of a device, an absence of a first activity that was previously identified on the device, wherein the first activity is predetermined to be associated with an increased vulnerability of the device to unwanted data, and wherein the absence is determined utilizing a first level of monitoring of the device;
- dynamically adjusting, with the processor, to a second level of monitoring of the device in response to the determination of the absence of the first activity, wherein the second level of monitoring of the device comprises monitoring for one or more fewer types of accesses performed by the first activity, the one or more fewer types of accesses representing a subset of types of accesses being monitored utilizing the first level of monitoring;
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- dynamically adjusting, with the processor, from a first level of scanning to a second level of scanning in response to the identification of the first activity, wherein the first level of scanning comprises scanning a first subset of a memory local to the device for the unwanted data and the second level of scanning comprises scanning a second subset of the memory local to the device for the unwanted data.
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A system, comprising:
- a memory;
- a network connection communicatively coupled to the memory and configured to receive data from a network;
- a user interface adapter communicatively coupled to the memory and configured to receive input from a user;
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- a processing device operatively communicatively coupled to the memory, the network connection and the user interface adapter, the processing device adapted to execute program code stored in the memory to:
- determine an absence of a first activity that was previously identified on the system, wherein the first activity is predetermined to be associated with an increased vulnerability of the device to unwanted data, and wherein the absence is determined utilizing a first level of monitoring of the system;
- dynamically adjust to a second level of monitoring of the system in response to the determination of the absence of the first activity, wherein the second level of monitoring of the system comprises monitoring for one or more fewer types of accesses performed by the first activity, the one or more fewer types of accesses representing a subset of types of accesses being monitored utilizing the first level of monitoring;
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- dynamically adjust from a first level of scanning to a second level of scanning in response to the identification of the first activity, wherein the first level of scanning comprises scanning a first subset of the memory for the unwanted data and the second level of scanning comprises scanning a second subset of the memory for the unwanted data.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.