Patent attributes
A system and method directed toward the deployment of one or more security plug-ins for software components (e.g., applications) that analyze incoming content and selectively prevent malicious portions of the content from being processed by the applications without limiting the processing and/or rendering of the legitimate (non-malicious) portions of the incoming content is described. Each of the security plug-ins is communicatively coupled to a published interface of a software component, such as an application. The security plug-in includes logic to (i) gain access to content received by the software component prior to processing of the content by the software component, (ii) parse the content into separate segments, (iii) analyze each content segment to determine whether the content segment is malicious or non-malicious, and (iv) permit rendering of one or more non-malicious content segments while preventing processing of one or more malicious content segments.
