Patent ID: 8661126

Claim:
A method comprising: identifying a particular security view from a plurality of available security views for a particular network including a plurality of computer devices; identifying a particular set of instructions corresponding to the particular security view from a plurality of scanning instruction sets; causing a particular scanner to utilize the particular set of instructions in a scan of the particular network, wherein the scan of the particular network identifies one or more vulnerabilities present on the particular network corresponding to the particular security view and one or more exposures present on the particular network corresponding to the particular security view; and determining a security score corresponding to the particular security view, wherein the security score is to be derived from a formula of form F=a−V−E, wherein F is the security score, a is a constant, V is a vulnerability loss, and E is an exposure loss, and vulnerability loss V is dependent on vulnerability risk levels of the vulnerabilities and exposure loss E is dependent on exposure risk levels of the exposures.