Patent Document ID: 8984643
Application ID: 14181415
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method comprising: identifying a set of remediations that is associated with a risk score and a set of computing vulnerabilities; prior to applying any remediation in the set of remediations to a corresponding computing vulnerability in the set of computing vulnerabilities: for each remediation in the set of remediations, determining an amount that the risk score would be reduced if said each remediation is applied to a corresponding computing vulnerability in the set of computing vulnerabilities, wherein determining comprises: determining that a first remediation in the set of remediations would reduce the risk score by a first amount, and determining that a second remediation in the set of remediations would reduce the risk score by a second amount; ordering the set of remediations to generate an ordered set of remediations based, at least in part, on the amount determined for each remediation in the set of remediations, wherein the first remediation is ranked higher than the second remediation in the ordered set of remediations based on the first amount being greater than the second amount; applying each remediation in the ordered set of remediations; wherein applying each remediation in the ordered set of remediations results in removing a computing vulnerability that corresponds to said each remediation; wherein ordering is performed by one or more computing devices.