Abstract: A distributed security information and event management system comprises a centralized portion and a plurality of remote portions, with the remote portions being implemented in respective applications within information technology infrastructure. Each of the remote portions comprises one or more remote components inserted into the corresponding application. At least a subset of the remote components of the remote portion are configured for interaction with one or more corresponding centralized components of the centralized portion of the system. The remote components may each be configured to process one or more specified eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) Obligations or other constructs.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture for protecting virtual machines processing sensitive information are provided herein. A method includes processing a request for uninterrupted virtual machine execution of a designated section of code by a first virtual machine; enabling uninterrupted virtual machine execution of the designated section of code by the first virtual machine on a selected core of a central processing unit based on said request; and disabling said uninterrupted virtual machine execution of the designated section of code by the first virtual machine based on an indication that the first virtual machine completed execution of the designated section of code.