Patent ID: 8505066

Claim:
A security audit system for a multi-function device, said security audit system comprising: a storage part configured to store a security audit policy; a security audit part configured to perform a security audit based on the security audit policy, said security audit including comparing (i) a current device configuration setting of said multi-function device corresponding to current operating settings of the device with (ii) said security audit policy; and an update part configured to update the device configuration setting of the multi-function device and thereby change the current operating settings of the device, based on the result of the comparison by said security audit part, wherein in a case that a result of the comparison by the security audit part indicates failure of the security audit policy by the current device configuration setting of the multi-function device, the security audit part automatically halts operation of said multi-function device, and the update part automatically obtains device configuration data from external to the multi-function device to update the device configuration setting of the multi-function device and subsequently resumes the operation of said multi-function device under the updated device configuration setting after successful comparison with said security audit policy.