Patent ID: 9124636
Filing Date: 2015-09-01
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: storing health status information specifying a current security status for each of a plurality of authenticated endpoint devices in accordance with an authorization data model; updating the current security status of each of at least two of the plurality of authenticated endpoint devices connected to an enterprise network to indicate that each of the at least two of the plurality of authenticated endpoint devices has a compromised security status; identifying a characteristic common to both of the at least two of the plurality of authenticated endpoint devices having the compromised security status; and interfacing with one or more policy enforcement devices to cause the one or more policy enforcement devices to quarantine a set of the plurality of endpoint devices associated with the identified characteristic, wherein the current security status of at least one of the quarantined set of the plurality of endpoint devices indicates that the at least one of the quarantined set of the plurality of endpoint devices does not have a compromised security status.