Patent ID: 8904541

Claim:
A method for facilitating security assessments in an online services environment, the method comprising: receiving, in an online services system, from a third-party application provider, a software application for utilization in the online services system; receiving, at a processor in the online services system from the third-party application provider, configuration data associated with a security assessment to be performed on the software application for utilization in the online services system, the configuration data comprising testing parameters for testing the software application and requirements for starting the security assessment on the software application; determining, in the online services system, whether the configuration data is valid; receiving, in the online services system from the third-party application provider, scanning data associated with the software application, the scanning data comprising access credentials for performing the security assessment on the software application; sending, by the online services system, the configuration data and scanning data to one or more security assessment systems such that the one or more security assessment systems performs the security assessment of the software application in accordance with the configuration data and the scanning data; and receiving the security assessment in the online services system from the one or more security assessment systems.