Patent ID: 8256003

Claim:
One or more computer-readable storage media comprising computer-executable instructions for managing risk in a network, the computer-executable instructions directed to steps comprising: requesting information indicative of a target computing device's compliance with a policy of a network of which the target computing device is already a member, from a network security computing device that is part of the network and protects the network, and an edge infrastructure computing device that is part of the network and provides access to inter-network services to members of the network; obtaining, in response to the requesting, multiple sets of information indicative of the target computing device's compliance with the policy of the network; publishing at least some of the multiple sets of information to subscriber computing devices comprising both a gatekeeper computing device that controls membership of the network and the edge infrastructure computing device, wherein at least some of the subscriber computing devices utilize the published information and the network policy to determine a remedial responsive action that they will apple with respect to the target computing device; and instructing an infrastructure computing device that is part of the network and provides access to intra-network services to members of the network and an access device through which the target computing device is communicationally coupled to the network, to cease communications with the target computing device if the obtained multiple sets of information are indicative of the target computing device no longer complying with the policy of the network, wherein the instructing is in accordance with the remedial responsive action.