Patent ID: 11928219
Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 6:
7. A computer program product for determining risk factors, the computer program product comprising:
one or more computer readable storage media; and
program instructions stored on the one or more computer readable storage media, the program instructions comprising:
program instructions to determine a level of classification for each piece of data of one or more pieces of data, the one or more pieces of data received over a communications link from a communications unit;
program instructions to determine a layer of encryption for each piece of data of the one or more pieces of data;
program instructions to determine a type of encryption for each piece of data of the one or more pieces of data;
program instructions to determine other mechanisms applied to each piece of data of the one or more pieces of data;
program instructions to determine a first constant for the layer of encryption, a second constant for the type of encryption, a third constant for the other mechanisms applied; and
program instructions to calculate a risk factor for each piece of data of the one or more pieces of data, the risk factor being calculated using the equation:, Risk
   ⁢
      
   Factor
   ⁢
      
   
    (
    
     R
     ⁢
     F
    
    )
   
  
  =
  
   1
   
    
     C
     ×
     
      ∑
      
       α
       ×
       L
      
     
    
    +
    
     (
     
      β
      ×
      M
     
     )
    
    +
    
     ∑
     
      γ
      ×
      O, where: C is the level of classification of the data, L is the layer of encryption of the data, M is the type of encryption of the data, O is other mechanism applied, α is the first constant, β is the second constant, and γ is the third constant.