Patent ID: 7680880

Claim:
A system, comprising: a remedy and patch hardware server located at a client site and adapted to receive a global remedy package from a primary provider comprising at least one remedy and a global patch package from a secondary provider comprising at least one patch, wherein at least one remedy and optionally at least one patch can repair a vulnerability in a computer network; at least one local remedy hardware server separate from the remedy and patch hardware server, the at least one local remedy hardware server adapted to communicate with the remedy and patch hardware server for receiving at least one remedy, wherein the at least one local remedy hardware server is provided by the primary provider of the global remedy package; at least one local patch hardware server separate from the remedy and patch hardware server and the at least one local remedy hardware server, the at least one local patch hardware server adapted to communicate with the remedy and patch hardware server to receive at least one patch; a local computer hardware system adapted to communicate, independently, with the at least one local remedy hardware server and at least one local patch hardware server for receiving, respectively, at least one remedy and optionally at least one patch; a globally connected system comprising the remedy and patch hardware server, the at least one local remedy hardware server, the at least one local patch hardware server, and the local computer system; a disconnected system at the client site comprising a second remedy and patch server, at least one second local remedy server and at least one second local patch server, wherein each of the at least one second local remedy server and at least one second local patch server communicates, independently, with a second local computer system; and the remedy and patch hardware server in the globally connected system being adapted to transfer at least one of the global remedy package and the global patch package on a data transfer media, and the at least one disconnected local remedy server and at least one disconnected local patch server being adapted to receive at least a portion of data from the data transfer media.