US Patent Issued to Red Hat on June 17 for "Containers system auditing through system call emulation" (American, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,995, issued on June 17, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Containers system auditing through system call emulation" was invented by Giuseppe Scrivano (Milan) and Daniel Walsh (Westford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a substitute audit log for use by applications in the user-space of a host operating system to write audit information. When a container makes a system call attempting to write audit information to an audit log of the kernel, the kernel may utilize a predefined set of instructions indicating how to detect such system calls and how such system calls are to b...