ServiceNow, Inc.
MALICIOUS DATA SCAN SERVICE

Abstract:

A communication network may scan data to identify and prevent the spread of malicious data, such as viruses, worms, trojans, malware, and the like, transmitted through the communication network. As scanning content for malicious data within an application program or an application node hosted on the communication network may limit the performance of the application program, a server in a load balanced datacenter environment may host a malicious data scan as a service. Accordingly, the malicious data scan service may scale effectively to accommodate an increasing number of application nodes in the network, and by retrieving updated definitions of malicious data at suitable times, the server may identify malicious data with increasing reliability.