Patent ID: 9413740
Filing Date: 2016-08-09
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. At a computer system including at least one processor, a computer-implemented method for providing computer system virtualization on a secure computing device, the method comprising: an act of establishing a secure computing device including: establishing a device claim that identifies the secure computing device; establishing an updating policy configured to ensure that the secure computing device is running up-to-date software patches; instantiating an application blocking service configured to ensure that only applications on a specified whitelist are allowed to be executed on the secure computing device; and establishing a networking policy that prevents at least some inbound network connections from reaching the secure computing device; and an act of instantiating at least one virtual machine on the established secure device, the instantiated at least one virtual machine allowing at least one application to be executed that is not the specified whitelist.