Patent ID: 11916930
Assignee: ACRONIS INTERNATIONAL GMBH
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 7:
8. A method for performing a non-invasive malware scan of a target computing device including a processor and a memory, by way of scanning only the memory of the target computing device, the method comprising:
loading a Remote Direct Memory Access (“RDMA”) unit and an endpoint protection agent comprising a first memory scan engine on the target computing device
monitoring, via the first memory scan engine of the RDMA unit, the target computing device for a violation of a predetermined security policy,
providing remote direct memory access to the memory of the target device to the remote security server for reading the memory of the target device;
buffering data at a buffer of the RDMA unit, for remote scanning in accordance with the security policy;
reading buffered data from the RDMA unit using remote direct memory access on a remote security server;
performing a memory scan of the buffered data, by a second memory scan engine of the remote security server, wherein the scan is only of processes occurring on the device during the scan and does not include scanning files and wherein the memory scan does not include running a virus scanner on the target device; and
sending, by the remote security server, a security response action to the RDMA unit on the target device in accordance with the predetermined security policy.