Patent ID: 9332033
Filing Date: 2016-05-03
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A computer-implemented method for enabling community-tested security features for legacy applications, the method comprising: identifying a plurality of client systems; identifying a subset of the plurality of client systems that is designated to test security features for legacy applications; transmitting a security-feature-enablement rule to each client system in the subset that, when executed, enables a security feature available on the client system; receiving, from each client system in the subset, health-impact information that identifies the impact, on the health of a legacy application on the client system, of executing the security-feature-enablement rule to enable the security feature; identifying a health-impact score that quantifies the impact of the enabled security feature on the health of the legacy applications on the client systems within the subset; determining, based on the health-impact score that quantifies the impact of the enabled security feature, whether to roll out the security-feature-enablement rule to the plurality of client systems at least in part by determining whether, on average, the security-feature-enablement rule negatively impacted the health of legacy applications on the client systems within the subset, the method being performed by a server-side computing device that comprises at least one processor.