Patent ID: 8813216

Claim:
A method of security protection for a first computer and a second computer having hardware and software to execute a network job entry (NJE) job to generate NJE data for the first computer, the method comprising the steps of: intercepting, by a third computer, a first NJE message sent from the first computer addressed to the second computer; determining, by the third computer, whether the second computer is authorized to receive the first NJE message based in part on whether the first NJE message requests a batch job to be performed by the second computer in response to intercepting the first NJE message sent from the first computer addressed to the second computer; sending, by the third computer, the first NJE message to the second computer in response to determining that the second computer is authorized to receive the first NJE message; determining, by the third computer in response to the third computer receiving from the second computer a second NJE message that is addressed to the first computer and that contains first NJE data generated by the second computer in response to the first NJE message, whether (a) a batch job identifier (ID) included by the second computer in the second NJE message is permitted by a security profile of the third computer to communicate with the first computer (b) the first NJE data is batch job data, and (c) the first computer is authorized to receive the first NJE data from the second computer based on a security level of a source of the first NJE data; and sending, by the third computer, the first NJE data to the first computer in response to all of (a) and (b) and (c) being true.