Patent ID: 9405902
Filing Date: 2016-08-02
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method of providing an anti-malware service to a multi-tenant cloud computing environment, the method comprising: determining image names of virtual machines leased by a tenant in a cloud computing environment having a plurality of tenants, the cloud computing environment including a cloud layer running on top of a virtualization layer, the image names identifying the virtual machines on the cloud layer; receiving a selection of virtual machines to be subscribed to the anti-malware service, the selection identifying selected virtual machines leased by the tenant; using image names of the selected virtual machines, determining corresponding virtual machine names of the selected virtual machines, the virtual machine names identifying the selected virtual machines on the virtualization layer; informing an anti-malware of the selected virtual machines identified by their respective virtual machine names, the anti-malware running on the virtualization layer; and using the anti-malware, providing the anti-malware service to the selected virtual machines on the virtualization layer, the anti-malware service including scanning files of the selected virtual machines for malware.