US Patent 11294705 Selective virtualization for security threat detection

Selective virtualization of resources is provided, where the resources may be intercepted and services or the resources may be intercepted and redirected. Virtualization logic monitors for one or more activities that are performed in connection with one or more resources and conducted during processing of an object within the virtual machine. The first virtualization logic further selectively virtualizes resources associated with the one or more activities that are initiated during the processing of the object within the virtual machine by at least redirecting a first request of a plurality of requests to a different resource than requesting by a monitored activity of the one or more activities.