Patent ID: 8806636

Claim:
A method for providing a terminal security checking service, the method comprising: inserting an external medium into a terminal, wherein the external medium contains a storing unit to store a security check client software, a security check result storing unit to store results of security checking, and a security measure information storing unit to store a security patch for fixing a vulnerability in information held in at least one terminal; establishing, by the terminal, a terminal connection between said external medium and said terminal of which a security check is performed; automatically running said security check client software in said external medium in response to the terminal connection being established between said external medium and said terminal, including collecting information of said terminal, and transmitting the collected information to a security checking server using said terminal as an intermediary; performing the security check at said security checking server of the collected information, producing the results of security checking, and transmitting the results to said external medium via network using said terminal as an intermediary; storing the results received from said security checking server in said security check result storing unit of the external medium; transmitting the results to said security checking server through an external initializing unit when said external medium is connected to said external initializing unit by inserting said external medium into the external initializing unit; sending back from said security checking server a newest security patch as information for security measures to the external medium through said external initializing unit in response to the results received from said external medium; and initializing said security measure information storing unit by using the sent-back newest security patch.