CPC G06F 21/53 (2013.01) [G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45562 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45587 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |
1. A method for registering with a cloud security monitoring service, the method comprising:
detecting a connection between a cloud agent running in a virtual machine on a host and a hypervisor module on the host;
in response to detecting the connection, querying the hypervisor module, by the cloud agent, for one or more first identifiers of the virtual machine;
checking a database, by the cloud agent, for one or more second identifiers stored in the database matching the one or more first identifiers received from the hypervisor module; and
based on finding no second identifiers stored in the database matching the one or more first identifiers, sending a request to the cloud security monitoring service to register the virtual machine with the cloud security monitoring service.
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