Patent ID: 8205239

Claim:
A network access gateway, comprising: a network interface that receives a request to access a network site from a first user that is remote to a network server; a processor that determines the requested network site has not been assigned a security risk classification and that the first user is requesting access to the requested network site for a first time; a memory that stores user information related to security risks of network sites to which a particular user has previously requested access, wherein the user information comprises a number of times the first user has previously requested to access each of the network sites; a database in the memory, wherein the database includes a reputation score for the first user and one or more additional users, wherein the reputation score is determined based on a number of access requests to network sites that have been previously identified as security risks; the processor further accesses the memory when access to the network site is requested for the first time, and based on the reputation scores for the first user and the one or more additional users, selects a security profile that is to be applied to the access request; and the processor further restricts access to the network site with an unknown security risk when a frequency of access requests to network sites identified as security risks is above a threshold.