SECURITY AGENTS AND PRIVILEGED MODES Russian patent published in 2012 - IPC G06F9/06 G06F11/30 

FIELD: information technology.

SUBSTANCE: one or more real computer processors are virtualised into virtual computer processors, each associated with a corresponding partition, the virtual computer processors comprising: a virtual operating system processor associated with a first partition and having a privilege to alter internal operating system memory and use part of the processing capacity of one or more real computer processors; and a virtual security agent processor associated with a second partition and having a privilege to alter internal security agent memory and use the other part of processing capacity of one or more real computer processors, wherein the security agent memory is not accessible from the virtual operating system processor; and the virtual security agent processor is instructed to run the security agent, permanently stationed in the second partition, in order to determine whether part of said operating system memory changed.

EFFECT: high reliability of operation of a processor owing to use of a security agent.

18 cl, 11 dwg