Patent ID: 8458793

Claim:
A method of disseminating instructions for removing an intrusion of a computer security threat, comprising: receiving a notification of a computer security threat; generating a computer-actionable first Threat Management Vector (T M V) from the notification that was received, the first TMV including therein a computer-readable field that provides identification of at least one system type that is affected by the computer security threat, and a computer-readable field that provides identification of a release level for the system type; transmitting the first TMV that is generated to a plurality of target systems for processing by the plurality of target systems; generating a null TMV in response to receiving a notification from a target system, included in the plurality of targets systems, that intrusion of the computer security threat has been detected, the null TMV including therein a computer-readable field that identifies that no instructions are available for removing the intrusion of the computer security threat that was detected; and transmitting the null TMV that is generated to the target system for processing by the target system.