Patent ID: 9450966
Filing Date: 2016-09-20
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A system, comprising: a machine; a virtual machine manager capable of managing one or more virtual machine images installed on the machine; an integrity reference component configured to store a plurality of virtual machine integrity records; and an integrity verification component communicatively coupled to the virtual machine manager and the integrity reference component, the integrity verification component configured to compare a digest of said one or more virtual machine images to a digest of at least one of said plurality of virtual machine integrity records accessible from the integrity reference component, wherein the integrity verification component is further configured to generate a trust score, among a plurality of trust scores, for one or more of the virtual machine images responsive to the comparison; and wherein the system is configured to grant access to an environment responsive to determining whether the one or more virtual machine images are authorized for the environment based on the trust score.