Patent ID: 11893409
Assignee: NICIRA, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 9:
10. A non-transitory machine readable medium storing a security program executable by at least one processing unit of a host computer, the security program for securing a managed forwarding element (MFE) that executes on a virtual machine (VM) executing on the host computer, the security program comprising sets of instructions for:
receiving a notification that the MFE is loaded on the particular VM, the MFE for performing forwarding operations to forward packets between the particular VM and a plurality of other VMs;
securing the MFE by isolating, in a physical memory of the host computer, executable code and data of the MFE from executable code and data of other applications that execute on the particular VM; and
authenticating, upon receiving the notification, the loaded MFE in order to ensure that the executable code and data of the MFE that is loaded on the particular VM is identical to original executable code and data of the MFE.