Patent ID: 7571459

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for security privilege transition mitigation between web pages that are associated with different security zones while a user is browsing, comprising: accessing, using a computing device, a first web page at a first Uniform Resource Locator (URL) in a web browser having a first security context determined from the first web page that is associated with a first security zone having a first security level; determining, using the computing device, when an event occurs that requests a navigation to occur from the first web page to a second web page at a second URL having a second security context determined from the second web page that is associated with a second security zone having a second security level; and determining, using the computing device, when to allow the navigation to occur from the first web page to the second web page by determining when the first security context of the first web page is higher than or equal to the second security context of the second web page.