Patent ID: 8898793

Claim:
A method comprising: determining one or more factors for adjusting a safety score associated with a device, wherein the safety score is based, at least in part, on a context associated with the device; determining one or more familiarity parameters, one or more trust parameters, or a combination thereof of respective one or more other devices associated with the context based, at least in part, on occurrence information of the respective one or more other devices within the context, wherein the occurrence information represents at least one of the one or more factors; processing and/or facilitating a processing of the one or more factors and the safety score, by a processor, to calculate an adjusted safety score based, at least in part, on adjusting the one or more familiarity parameters, the one or more trust parameters, or a combination thereof according to the one or more factors; and causing, at least in part, a selection of a security policy based, at least in part, on the adjusted safety score.