Patent ID: 7000247

Claim:
A system for resolving computer vulnerabilities, comprising: a remediation server capable of coupling to a security intelligence agent having information about computer vulnerabilities in order to aggregate said vulnerability information into a remediation database; a signature module coupled to said remediation server to construct a remediation signature for each vulnerability; a download server coupled to said signature module to provide remote access to said remediation signatures; a client server capable of coupling to said download server to access said remediation signatures; a deployment module coupled to said client server capable of deploying said remediation signatures to a client computer coupled to said client server; wherein said deployment module constructs a remediation profile for each client computer, wherein said remediation profile comprises remediation signatures to resolve vulnerabilities on said client computer; wherein a remediation signature comprises an automated sequence of actions which may be taken with respect to a client computer to modify the client computer to address a corresponding vulnerability on the client computer: wherein there are a plurality of remediation signatures and wherein the plurality of remediation signatures comprise at least one remediation signature of the registry management type, at least one remediation signature of the patch installation type and at least one remediation signature of at least one of the following additional remediation types: service management, security permissions management, account management, policy management, audit management, file management and process management.