MANAGING VIRTUAL COMPUTING TESTING

摘要

Systems, methods, and interfaces for the management of virtual machine networks and other programmatically controlled networks are provided. Hosted virtual networks are configured in a manner such that a virtual machine manager of the virtual network may monitor activity such as user requests, network traffic, and the status and execution of various virtual machine instances to determine possible security assessments. A security assessment may be performed before, after, or simultaneous to the execution of the activity associated with the security assessment event. The execution of an activity may further be synchronous with the results of the security assessment. The timing of the assessment may correspond to the type of assessment or type of activity that is requested or detected.

主权项

1. A system for managing a virtual machine network comprising:
an interface component for obtaining requests, the requests corresponding to a request for execution of a virtual machine network activity; a memory component for storing virtual machine network assessment profiles, wherein the virtual machine network assessment profiles comprise at least one assessment preference associated with a security assessment event, and wherein each assessment preference corresponds to at least one of an assessment timing, an assessment type, and an assessment extent; and a virtual machine assessment manager operable to:
dynamically determine a security assessment event based on at least one of a detected activity associated with the execution of the virtual machine network and receipt of a request for execution of a virtual machine network activity from the interface component;identify an assessment profile for the dynamically determined security assessment event;determine an assessment preference for the virtual machine network, the assessment preference specified in the assessment profile;determine, based on the determined assessment preference, whether to cause performance of a security assessment prior to the execution of a virtual machine network activity associated with the security assessment event; andcause the performance of a security assessment on the virtual machine network based on the determined assessment preference.