FullArmor Awarded Patent for Applying Group Policy to Virtualized Applications

FullArmor Corp., a leading edge cloud services platform provider, today announced that it has received patent # 8,078,713 from the United States Patent & Trademark Office for applying Group Policy Object (GPO) settings to virtualized applications without affecting the underlying hardware’s policy settings. The patented approach takes advantage of a capability provided in the FullArmor GPanywhere® product. Although the invention works on the Microsoft Windows operating system, other operating systems such as Linux and UNIX can be adapted to support it as well.

“Microsoft Group Policy technology provides a powerful platform for centrally managing user permissions, security settings, and more, but it does not allow policies to be applied to individual virtualized applications without applying them on the underlying hardware device,” said Danny Kim, CTO of FullArmor. “We have developed a way, using our GPAnywhere product, to ‘inject’ Group Policy Objects into virtualized applications so that they don’t affect the machine’s file system and registry. This technology opens up a whole new world of possibilities for managing virtualized applications not just on Windows but on Linux and UNIX also.”

Highlights of FullArmor Patent

The patented invention works in the following way:

• It receives a GPO from Active Directory
• Combines the GPO and logic for using the GPO with a virtualized application and creates a virtualized GPO
• Injects the virtualized GPO into the virtualized application
• The virtualized GPO is delivered to the target device in the same manner that the virtual application is streamed
• The virtualized GPO only applies policies to the virtual application’s file and registry system
• The virtualized GPO does not affect the target machine’s file and registry system

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