A system and method for granting and transmitting access rights to data, the method includes steps of: receiving a request for information relating to a specified individual, wherein the request identifies a person requesting the information; determining the degree of relationship between the person requesting the information and the individual to whom the information relates; retrieving access rights for the requesting person from a repository; determining the owner of the rights as well as the...

For a method and system for managing concurrent access to multiple resources, resources are assigned to sets in such a way that it is safe to concurrently access any combination of resources in a resource set. For each resource set, a virtual machine is defined and associated with the resource set. An application is assigned to a virtual machine. When an application requests access to a resource not in the application's virtual machine, access control lists are consulted to determine whether the...

A method that controls user access to the stored data elements using security label components is disclosed. Each stored data element is associated with a set of data security label components, and each user is associated with a set of user security label components. The method receives a user request to access the stored data elements, compares the set of user security label components to the set of data security label components associated with the users, and based on the comparison result, de...

The invention relates to digital rights management, and proposes the implementation of a DRM agent (125) into a tamper-resistant identity module (120) adapted for engagement with a client system (100), such as a mobile phone or a computer system. The DRM agent (125) is generally implemented with functionality for enabling usage, such as rendering or execution of protected digital content provided to the client system from a content provider. In general, the DRM agent (125) includes functionality...

An executable file containing malicious software can be packed using a packer to make the software difficult to detect. The executable file is loaded into the computer's memory and executed as a process. A memory dump module analyzes the address space for the process and identifies an executable file image within it. The memory dump module creates a memory dump file on the computer's storage device containing the file image and modifies the file to make it resemble a normal executable file. A si...

A malicious access-detecting apparatus which is cable of grasping the whole aspect of an attack which can occur, before it actually occurs. A monitoring information-collecting section collects monitoring information including the network events detected by the monitoring devices on networks. A malicious apparatus group-deriving section retrieves a corresponding piece of the event information from an event information storage device, and derives, based on the retrieved piece of the event informat...

A security system, method and computer program product are provided. In use, a request from a remote computer to write to a file on a local computer is identified. It is then determined whether the request results in the local computer being infected with malware. If it is determined that the request results in the local computer being infected with malware, communications between the remote computer and the local computer are blocked.

A method for disabling a process in a computer, particularly including processes such as viruses, spyware, adware, and malware generally. A file object (file or folder) is identified in the computer that is required by the process. An access control entry (ACE) is then stored in an access control list (ACL) for the file object. The ACE specifies an entity (user or group) and a permission needed by that entity to access or execute the file object. The ACE further specifies that the entity is deni...

Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for training a computer code intrusion detection system in real time. A method embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of observing (22), in real time, commands (5) that are accessing the computer code (1); and deriving (23) from said commands (5), in real time, a set (6) of acceptable commands.

Described is apparatus for testing an intrusion detection system in a data processing system. The apparatus comprises an attack generator for generating attack traffic on a communications path in the data processing system. A collector receives responses generated by the intrusion detection system on receipt of the attack traffic. A controller coupled to the attack generator and the collector varies the attack traffic generated by the attack generator in dependence on the response received from ...