Patent ID: 11895159
Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 14:
15. A computer system for improving endpoint security, the computer system comprising:
one or more computer processors;
one or more non-transitory computer readable storage media; and
program instructions stored on the one or more non-transitory computer readable storage media, the program instructions comprising:
program instructions to request security capabilities from one or more endpoints;
program instructions to analyze a difference between the security capabilities;
program instructions to negotiate a security capability supported by the one or more endpoints;
program instructions to determine if the negotiation succeeded;
responsive to the negotiating succeeding, program instructions to dynamically change a security level between the one or more endpoints to a higher security level based on at least one of endpoint hardware or endpoint firmware capabilities; and
responsive to the negotiation failing, program instructions to create a report describing capabilities associated with the one or more endpoints and suggesting changes for at least one of the one or more endpoints and to send the report to predetermined interested personnel.