Patent ID: 8397298

Claim:
A content delivery system comprising: an upload module configured to: receive content from a content provider; generate a first hash of the content detect that the content contains at least one of malicious software and proprietary information; and provide information about the content to a monitoring module; a hardware content delivery module configured to: receive the content from the upload module; generate a second hash of the content; verify the integrity of the content based upon the first hash and the second hash; detect that the content contains at least one of malicious software and unauthorized changes; detect operational changes to the content delivery module; provide information about the content and the operational changes to the monitoring module; receive a request for the content from a client system; and provide the content to the client system; and the monitoring module configured to: monitor a network for potentially malicious traffic; receive information from the content delivery module and the upload module, the information from the content delivery module including verification of the integrity of the content; correlate the information and the potentially malicious traffic to identify a security event; and trigger a response to the security event.