Patent ID: 8843444

Claim:
A method for execution by one or more processors, the method comprising: maintaining current patch level data, the current patch level data identifying patch levels for one or more files; creating a backup image, the backup image containing copies of the one or more files at a creation time of the backup image; adding image patch level data to the backup image, the image patch level data identifying the patch level of the one or more files, the image patch level data comprising the current patch level data at the creation time of the backup image; obtaining second current patch level data for the one or more files in the backup image, the second current patch level data comprising patch level data at a time after the creation time of the backup image; and displaying an urgency of applying a patch including displaying the image patch level data of the one or more files and display the second current patch level data of the one or more files of the backup image, the urgency indicative of a security hole existing in the one or more files when the one or more files is restored from the backup image.