Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support – Multiple computer communication using cryptography – Protection at a particular protocol layer
Patent
1997-01-10
2000-07-11
Beausoliel, Jr., Robert W.
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support
Multiple computer communication using cryptography
Protection at a particular protocol layer
G06F 1214
Patent
active
060888016
ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for managing the risk of executing a software process on a computer by programmatically determining the capabilities of the software process before it executes and determining whether these capabilities are authorized within an access control policy. The capabilities define what functions a software process can perform in the context of a virtual machine. The method comprises the steps of assessing the software process to determine what capabilities it possesses, maintaining one or more policies which list potential capabilities and corresponding authorizations for one or more contexts, and a unit for comparing the software process capabilities with a policy.
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Beausoliel, Jr. Robert W.
Elisca Pierre E.
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