Patent ID: 8234706

Claim:
A method for enabling access to security data comprising: accessing data associated with software security from a plurality of electronic sources by using a web crawler to retrieve security data from web sites, databases, message boards and online sources; aggregating said data from said plurality of electronic sources; identifying attributes associated with said data to enable organization of the data; assigning a trust rating to the data to identify trusted security data based on the attributes for the data or web sites, databases, message boards and on-line sources from which the security data was retrieved; enabling access to said aggregated data through a graphical user interface that can be used to analyze said data according to said attributes; enabling access to a security relationship visualizer to display a graph for security relationships of security elements including a software product, a security researcher and a security domain specific keyword and to allow navigation between related security elements; and providing a dynamic security snap-shot to show security developments during a defined time window for a security topic.