Patent ID: 7841008

Claim:
A computer-program product comprising a tangible, non-transitory computer readable medium containing computer program code comprising: a threat personalization application for creating, on a host computer system of a user, a user's security risk profile for a user, wherein said user is a human user of said host computer system; said user's security risk profile is specific to said user; and said user's security risk profile comprises: building said user's security risk profile from a user's behavior profile and a user's system profile, wherein said user's behavior profile is a personalized behavior of said user on said host computer system; and said user's system profile is a profile of a personalized system of said user on said host computer system; said threat personalization application further for creating a personalized threat profile for a threat with respect to information on said host computer system of a user; said threat personalization application further for determining whether there is a correlation between said user's security risk profile and said personalized threat profile; and said threat personalization application further for issuing a personalized alert to said user based on an outcome of said determining whether there is correlation, wherein upon said threat being detected, said personalized alert is a personalized reactive alert; and upon said threat not being detected, said personalized alert is a personalized proactive alert; wherein said user's behavior profile is characterized by at least one attribute selected from the group comprising of: (1) accounts and memberships of said user; (2) online activities of said user; (3) network behavior of said user; (4) use of external devices by said user; and (5) update behavior of said user; wherein said user's system profile is characterized by at least one attribute selected from the group comprising of: 1) sensitive applications; (2) high-risk applications; (3) valuable data/files; and (4) system and application modification frequency.