Patent ID: 11886573
Assignee: SUSE LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 4:
5. The method of claim 1, wherein probing for the one or more threats within the instance further comprises:
retrieving entries from a threat database, each entry indicating a benchmark setting using a Center for Internet Security (CIS) benchmark, and each entry indicating a signature used to identify a non-conformance with the benchmark setting;
probing one or more software sources of the instance;
determining whether one of the one or more software sources of the instance matches to the signature corresponding to the benchmark setting in one of the entries of the threat database; and
wherein generating the threat level assessment score further comprises:
increasing, in response to determining that one of the one or more software sources of the instance matches the signature corresponding to the benchmark setting in the one of the entries of the threat database, the threat level assessment score for the instance.