Patent ID: 8683052

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a storage device to store data corresponding to a plurality of categories and one or more corresponding risk decisions for an online communication between a destination and a client, wherein the stored data is to indicate one or more risks corresponding to a type of online communication between the destination and the client; and a security agent coupled to the destination and the client, wherein the security agent is to determine whether the one or more risks are acceptable for the type of the online communication based on the stored data corresponding to the one or more risk decisions, wherein the stored data is to comprise one or more rules to determine whether the online communication between the destination and the client meets requirements for the type of online communication between the destination and the client, wherein each category from the plurality of categories is to indicate the one or more risk decisions for the type of the online communication and wherein each category from the plurality of categories is to correspond to a specific type of the online communication with a different level of security requirement for each of the plurality of categories.