Patent ID: 7779480
Filing Date: 2010-08-17
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising computer-executable instructions for identifying application dependency upon a security context comprising: monitoring, by a computing device, execution of an application; identifying a comparison of a plurality of security identifiers performed by the application for permitting the execution of the application during the execution of the application, the plurality of security identifiers including user identifiers or group identifiers, wherein at least one of the plurality of security identifiers is not obtained by the application from the security context or from an access control list; checking the plurality of security identifiers in the comparison against a list of known identifiers that are associated with elevated rights to identify one or more elevated rights identifiers; reconfiguring the application to permit the execution of the application without the one or more elevated rights identifiers; and logging a state of execution of the application if at least one of the plurality of security identifiers is associated with elevated rights.