Patent ID: 9652610
Date: 2017-05-16
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A method comprising: determining, by a host computer system, that a first security measure in a mobile device separate from the host computer system has been compromised by malicious software, wherein the first security measure is a software routine or library that protects sensitive information associated with a user of the mobile device, and wherein said determining includes detecting a triggering feature of the malicious software; determining, by the host computer system, a corrective measure against the malicious software to be executed by the mobile device, wherein the corrective measure includes deauthorization of an application executing on the mobile device to prevent malicious communication with an operating system of the mobile device, the host computer system, or both; calculating, by the host computer system, a delay to be applied before execution of the corrective measure; and causing, by the host computer system, execution of the corrective measure to occur only after a time period corresponding to the delay has passed since detection of the triggering feature.