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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185943 | Network adapter firewall system and method A network adapter system and associated method are provided. Included is a network adapter having a plurality of designated trusted and untrusted ports. The network adapter includes a processor coupled to a computer. Such processor is further coupled to a network vi... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185930 | Adjusting filter or classification control settings Methods and systems for adjusting control settings associated with filtering or classifying communications to a computer or a network. The adjustment of the control settings can include adjustment of policy and/or security settings associated with the computer or ne... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181222 | Locally adaptable central security management in a heterogeneous network environment A system and method for defining and enforcing a security policy. Security mechanism application specific information for each security mechanism is encapsulated as a key and exported to a semantic layer. Keys are combined to form key chains within the semantic laye... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8181033 | Data leakage prevention system, method, and computer program product for preventing a predefined type of operation on predetermined data A data leakage prevention system, method, and computer program product are provided for preventing a predefined type of operation on predetermined data. In use, an attempt to perform an operation on predetermined data that is protected using a data leakage preventio... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180152 | System, method, and computer program product for determining whether text within an image includes unwanted data, utilizing a matrix A system, method, and computer program product are provided for determining whether text within an image includes unwanted data, utilizing a matrix. In operation, a matrix corresponding to an image is generated. Additionally, text within the image is identified util... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179798 | Reputation based connection throttling Systems and methods for reputation based connection determinations are provided. Systems used for reputation based connection throttling can include a communications interface, a reputation engine and a connection control engine. The communications interface can rec... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176559 | Obfuscated malware detection Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for obfuscated malware. In one aspect, a method includes executing from a binary executable a call instruction and a plurality of instruction subsequent to a target of... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176553 | Secure gateway with firewall and intrusion detection capabilities A system, method and computer program product are provided. Initially, data is received from a remote source which is destined for a target. A portion of such data is discarded based on a predetermined set of rules utilizing a firewall. Further, the data is compared... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171551 | Malware detection using external call characteristics A malware scanner 2, for malware such as computer viruses, worms, Trojans and the like, utilizes the external call characteristics associated with known items of malware to identify the presence of malware within a computer file. Malware written in a high lev... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8161551 | System, method, and computer program product for enabling communication between security systems A system, method, and computer program product are provided for enabling communication between security systems. In use, a first communication protocol of a first security system and a second communication protocol of a second security system are identified, where t... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160975 | Granular support vector machine with random granularity Methods and systems for granular support vector machines. Granular support vector machines can randomly select samples of datapoints and project the samples of datapoints into a randomly selected subspaces to derive granules. A support vector machine can then be use... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8156541 | System, method, and computer program product for identifying unwanted activity utilizing a honeypot device accessible via VLAN trunking A system, method, and computer program product are provided for identifying unwanted activity utilizing a honeypot accessible via virtual local area network (VLAN) trunking. In use, a honeypot device is allowed to be accessed via VLAN trunking. Furthermore, unwanted... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8145936 | Automated computing appliance disaster recovery A system and method for automatic disaster recovery of a computing appliance including reconstruction of its previous operational state. A configuration bundle that includes configuration data, software revision level and a list of system updates is used to recover ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140642 | Network connection-independent updating system and method A system, method and computer program product are provided for communicating over a network without a direct connection to the network. A process is first initiated on a first computer without a direct connection to a network. In response to the process, a second co... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135830 | System and method for network vulnerability detection and reporting A system and method provide comprehensive and highly automated testing of vulnerabilities to intrusion on a target network, including identification of operating system, identification of target network topology and target computers, identification of open target po... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8135823 | System and method for network vulnerability detection and reporting A system and method provide comprehensive and highly automated testing of vulnerabilities to intrusion on a target network, including identification of operating system, identification of target network topology and target computers, identification of open target po... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8132250 | Message profiling systems and methods Methods and systems for operation upon one or more data processors that classify communications from messaging entities. A method can include receiving a communication that was sent from a messaging entity. A plurality of message classification techniques is used to... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8132164 | System, method and computer program product for virtual patching A system, method, and computer program product are provided for virtual patching. Initially, information associated with at least one vulnerability of a computer application is collected. Further, at least one host interface is identified that is capable of being us... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8131849 | Probe election in failover configuration Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for allocating probing responsibilities between a primary sensor and a secondary sensor. In one aspect, a method includes determining a first probe type, the first pro... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8127354 | System, method, and computer program product for identifying vulnerabilities associated with data loaded in memory A system, method, and computer program product are provided for identifying vulnerabilities associated with data loaded in memory. In operation, a subset of data that is loaded in memory is identified. Additionally, the subset of data is compared to a list of known ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8122498 | Combined multiple-application alert system and method A system, method and computer program product are provided for combined alerting. Initially, an event is identified. First information relating to a first response to the event associated with a first application is received. Further received is second information r... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8117273 | System, device and method for dynamically securing instant messages An Instant Messaging security system that encrypts Instant Messages sent by a Instant Messaging user to an Instant Messaging server by intercepting the messages, negotiating a preferred security algorithm and forwarding the encrypted messages to the server. The secu... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8115769 | System, method, and computer program product for conveying a status of a plurality of security applications A system, method and computer program product are provided for displaying a status of a security application. A status of at least one security application is initially identified. An index is calculated that is representative of a degree of risk associated with the... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8103048 | Detection of spam images A method, system, and computer program product for analyzing image attachments to email messages and reliably determines whether the image includes spam, so that the message can be blocked. A method for processing email messages comprises processing an image include... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8099740 | System, method, and computer program product for terminating a hidden kernel process A system, method, and computer program product are provided for terminating a hidden kernel process. In use, a hidden kernel process structure associated with a hidden kernel process is identified. In addition, the hidden kernel process structure is inserted into an... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8090816 | System and method for real-time triggered event upload A method, system, and computer program product reports malware events in real-time and does not cause network congestion that adversely affects the usability of the network. A method of reporting malware events comprises the steps of detecting a malware event, deter... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090660 | Pay per use security billing method and architecture A system is provided for use-based charging of security software. The system includes a security software, a monitor component, and a billing component. The security software provides security for a computer system, and the monitor component is operable to monitor u... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8087065 | Method and system for implementing mandatory file access control in native discretionary access control environments A method is provided for implementing a mandatory access control model in operating systems which natively use a discretionary access control scheme. A method for implementing mandatory access control in a system comprising a plurality of computers, the system compr... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8086582 | System, method and computer program product for scanning and indexing data for different purposes A system, method and computer program product are provided for scanning and indexing data for different purposes. Included is a universal engine operable to scan and index data stored in at least one device, for a plurality of different purposes. Further provided is... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8082584 | System, method, and computer program product for conditionally performing a scan on data based on an associated data structure A system, method, and computer program product are provided for conditionally performing a scan of data based on an associated data structure. In use, at least one aspect is identified for each of a first plurality of scanners utilized to perform a scan on data at a... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8074282 | System, method, and computer program product for conveying a status of a plurality of security applications A system, method and computer program product are provided for displaying a status of a security application. A status of at least one security application is initially identified. An index is calculated that is representative of a degree of risk associated with the... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8074256 | Pdstudio design system and method A policy developer studio comprising: a meta-policy core of network objects, a policy developer graphical user interface (GUI) tool for providing a front end to a policy language, an output in XML, a compiled output for a policy engine, and an output in human readab... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8069481 | Systems and methods for message threat management The present invention is directed to systems and methods for detecting unsolicited and threatening communications and communicating threat information related thereto. Threat information is received from one or more sources; such sources can include external securit... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8069480 | Method and system for defining a safe storage area for use in recovering a computer system A method for defining an area to record changes made to a computer system is provided. A safe area is defined on a primary storage device of the computer system and information is stored on the location of the safe area on a secondary storage device. Further, the co... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8068441 | Automated discovery of access points in wireless computer networks As part of a wireless access point configuration process, a computer network is probed and each previously unprogrammed wireless access point on the network is programmed by transmitting wireless network configuration parameters thereto using a software agent residi... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8051479 | Method and apparatus for detecting shellcode The invention is a method and apparatus for detecting shellcode such that a set of computer instructions is scanned for the presence of a null operation instruction. The computer instructions are also examined for the presence of a system call instruction, and revie... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8045458 | Prioritizing network traffic Methods and systems for operation upon one or more data processors for prioritizing transmission among a plurality of data streams based upon a classification associated with the data packets associated with each of the plurality of data streams, respectively. Syste... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8042181 | Systems and methods for message threat management The present invention is directed to systems and methods for detecting unsolicited and threatening communications and communicating threat information related thereto. Threat information is received from one or more sources; such sources can include external securit... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8042178 | Alert message control of security mechanisms in data processing systems An authenticated secure network communication link is established between an alert message generating computer 2 and a destination data processing system 6. The alert message sent specifies a risk threat level and a suggested countermeasure amongst oth... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8042149 | Systems and methods for message threat management The present invention is directed to systems and methods for detecting unsolicited and threatening communications and communicating threat information related thereto. Threat information is received from one or more sources; such sources can include external securit... | 10/18/2011 |
