Patent ID: 9544306
Date: 2017-01-10
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A method for controlling access to a computing device, comprising: defining, by an enterprise using a remote compliance server, a plurality of geofence boundaries of known suspicious locations; creating, at the remote compliance server, a plurality of compliance rules that define: installing, at the computing device, an agent application configured to monitor operation of the computing device; receiving, from the compliance server by the agent application executing on the computing device, the plurality of compliance rules; receiving information regarding at least one authentication attempt; determining, using at least one processor, based at least in part on the information regarding the at least one authentication attempt, whether the at least one authentication attempt comprises a suspected attempted security breach on the computing device; and in an instance in which it is determined that the at least one authentication attempt comprises a suspected attempted security breach: