Patent ID: 9094447
Filing Date: 2015-07-28
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of operating a server computer executing an information security application to provide information security services to a client computer, comprising: in response to a request from the client computer for a security operation, generating a context vector and performing a lookup in a configuration structure to identify a configurable action to be taken as part of the operation, the context vector including a set of current values of respective environment variables, the configuration structure storing configuration objects each having an environment field and an action field, the environment field storing configured values of the environment variables to specify a context for use of an action value stored in the action field, the configured values including predefined specific values and a wildcard value indicating that a context for use of the action value of a given configuration object is independent of a given environment variable, the lookup resulting in identification of a set of the configuration objects whose respective configured values of the environment variables either are wildcards or match respective current values of the environment variables in the context vector; resolving a set of action values of the identified set of configuration objects to create a resolved action value specifying the configurable action to be taken; and performing the configurable action specified by the resolved action value and returning a response to the client computer based on a result of the configurable action.