Patent ID: 8413245

Claim:
A method comprising: monitoring, at each of a plurality of control points, one or more processing activities associated with each of a plurality of components of a computer system, each control point of the plurality of control points corresponding to one or more components of the plurality of components, each component having a corresponding interface; detecting an attack on the computer system; in response to the detecting, determining that the attack is a polymorphic attack; in response to the determining, identifying a particular interface on the computer system that is failing as a result of the polymorphic attack; determining that generation of a new signature will not be effective to prevent execution of the polymorphic attack; in response to determining that generation of a new signature will not be effective to prevent execution of the polymorphic attack, adjusting access only to the particular interface at a particular control point established on the interface and not the entire computer system, wherein the particular control point is one of the plurality of control points; wherein the method is performed by one or more processors.