Patent ID: 11954516
Assignee: WIZ, INC.
Field: nan (nan)
Classification: CPC nan | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A method for inspecting running containers in a cloud computing environment for cybersecurity threats, comprising:
discovering a container running in a cloud computing environment;
detecting an identifier of the running container, wherein the identifier includes an indicator to a repository in which an image of the container is stored, the repository further storing a plurality of images, wherein a second image of the plurality of images does not correspond to a container running in the cloud computing environment;
accessing the repository to pull the image;
inspecting the image of the running container for a cybersecurity threat;
inspecting the image of the running container for the cybersecurity threat when the container is running in the cloud computing environment; and
configuring an inspector to halt inspection of an image not corresponding to a container running in the cloud computing environment.