Patent ID: 8161560

Claim:
A security health reporting system for adding support for one or more new security classes, the security health reporting system comprising: a memory storing computer-executable instructions of: a provider Application Program Interface (API) component that receives one or more schema instances describing one or more new security classes, each schema instance for reporting security health status for a new security class and providing values defining possible states of security health for the new security class along with reporting attributes for each state; and receives security health status reports for the one or more new security classes, a security health status report for a new security class indicating a state of security health as defined by the schema instance for the new security class; and a security health component that creates the one or more new security classes using the schema instances within the security health reporting system to provide reporting for the one or more new security classes; and synthesizes the received security health status reports for multiple new security classes into an overall security health status report; and a processor that executes the computer-executable instructions stored in the memory.