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Data management of potentially malicious content

US9189625B2 · kind B2 · utility

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19Claims

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Assignee

International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

Jens-Peter Akelbein · Nackenheim, DE
Mathias Dietz · Simmerath, DE
Nils Haustein · Nieder-Olm, DE
Rolf Schaefer · Mainz, DE
Ruben Straus · Mainz, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Sep 4, 2013
Grant date	Nov 17, 2015
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jan 18, 2034

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F2221/034
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

In a data management system, examination of first data for malicious content by a malicious content scanner is initiated in response to a request to write first data to a data storage device. In response to the examination revealing no malicious content in the first data, the first data, a first signature representative of a version of the malicious content scanner at a time of the examination of the first data, and second data linking the first signature to the first data as read-only data are written to the data storage device.

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