Patent ID: 9003511
Filing Date: 2015-04-07
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of improving the security of a computing device, comprising: using a computing device that has received one or more messages that have been determined as unauthorized, obtaining a plurality of state data values from one or more of the computing device, the one or more messages, and a second computer; before admitting the one or more messages to a data communications network that the computing device is configured to protect: using the computing device and pseudo-random selection logic, based on the state data values, pseudo-randomly selecting a particular policy action from among a plurality of different stored policy actions; using the computing device, acting upon the one or more messages using the particular policy action; wherein the method further comprises performing the pseudo-randomly selecting only from among a subset of the plurality of different policy actions that include a marking specifying polymorphic treatment.