METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPROVING SECURITY AND RELIABILITY IN A NETWORKED APPLICATION ENVIRONMENT

摘要

A security application manages security and reliability of networked applications executing collection of interacting computing elements within a distributed computing architecture. The security application monitors various classes of resources utilized by the collection of nodes within the distributed computing architecture and determine whether utilization of a class of resources is approaching a pre-determined maximum limit. The security application performs a vulnerability scan of a networked application to determine whether the networked application is prone to a risk of intentional or inadvertent breach by an external application. The security application scans a distributed computing architecture for the existence of access control lists (ACLs), and stores ACL configurations and configuration changes in a database. The security application scans a distributed computing architecture for the existence of security certificates, places newly discovered security certificates in a database, and deletes outdated security certificates. Advantageously, security and reliability are improved in a distributed computing architecture.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
discovering a resource stored within at least one memory element included in a distributed computing architecture; determining a classification for the resource based on one or more classification criteria; determining whether the classification corresponds to a record within a database; and if the classification corresponds to a record within the database, then:
incrementing a counter associated with the record; or if the classification does not correspond to a record within the database, then:
initializing another record within the database that corresponds to the classification, andinitializing another counter associated with the another record.