Patent ID: 8776230

Claim:
A computerized method of distributing security policies comprising: maintaining a security policy at a master policy server; periodically synchronizing the master policy server and a local policy server to replicate the security policy at the local policy server; wherein the local policy server manages security with respect to a plurality of client platforms operating anti-virus programs and wherein the local policy server is configured to consolidate security statistics received from each of the plurality of client platforms, and wherein the synchronizing further comprises obtaining the consolidated security statistics associated with the client platforms from the local policy server, and wherein the master policy server is configured to schedule the synchronizing at times when less data traffic is experienced on a network associated with the master policy server and the local policy server, and wherein the master policy server is configured to maintain global level security policy configurations to be used by the local policy server for deriving set-up policies for the anti-virus programs of the client platforms; requesting the consolidated security statistics from the local policy server by the master policy server; receiving the consolidated security statistics from the local policy server by the master policy server; and deriving a global status from the consolidated security statistics.