Patent ID: 8805972
Filing Date: 2014-08-12
Classification: G06F,H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for managing security application configuration settings for a plurality of diverse computing devices having independent security applications, the method comprising: hosting, via a computer-implemented configuration service, a user interface associated with a user account that facilitates selective adjustment of security functionality settings for a plurality of security objectives; maintaining, by the computer-implemented configuration service, a first mapping that associates each of the security objectives with a corresponding set of tasks; maintaining, by the computer-implemented configuration service, a second mapping that associates each task with different sets of security modules executable on corresponding different ones of the diverse computing devices, each of the security modules comprising instructions that, when executed according to certain operational parameter settings by its corresponding computing device, cause that computing device to perform at least a portion of the corresponding task; maintaining, by the computer-implemented configuration service, an inventory of computing devices and security modules available on each of the computing devices, associated with the user account; receiving, via the user interface, security functionality setting input defining at least one security objective to be carried out on each of the diverse computing devices; determining, by the computer-implemented configuration service, based on the inventory and on the security functionality setting input, an extent to which each independent security application of each one of the computing devices has a capability to meet the at least one security objective; in response to a result of the determining being indicative of a first computing device having capability to meet the at least one security objective, generating, by the configuration service, configuration instructions particularized to the first computing device to cause a first security application of the first computing device to carry out the tasks associated with the at least one security objective; and in response to a result of the determining being indicative of a second computing device lacking capability to meet one or more of the at least one security objective, indicating, by the configuration service, an exception condition.