| CPC H04L 9/3247 (2013.01) [G06F 8/63 (2013.01); G06F 8/71 (2013.01)] | 19 Claims |

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1. A method for validating a software image of a virtual instance deployed in a computing environment, comprising:
detecting a virtual instance deployed in a computing environment, the virtual instance deployed based on a software image;
detecting an image name of the software image;
accessing an image software repository to retrieve the software image based on the detected image name;
initiating validation of the retrieved software image and;
initiating a mitigation action on the virtual instance in response to detecting that the retrieved software image is an invalid software image.
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