Patent ID: 9479527
Filing Date: 2016-10-25
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: accessing, by a microprocessor, identifying information regarding a plurality of processing nodes of a cloud system from an inventory; creating, by the microprocessor, a job bundle including the identifying information regarding the processing nodes, the job bundle including a number of blocks having the identifying information regarding the processing nodes to be scanned for vulnerability to attacks; after creating the job bundle, determining, by the processor, that one of the processing nodes is modified within the cloud system; updating, by the microprocessor, the job bundle to remove a portion of the identifying information regarding the one of the processing nodes that is modified to generate an updated job bundle; and loading, by the microprocessor, the updated job bundle to a vulnerability scanner for scanning the updated job bundle for vulnerability to attacks.