Patent Document ID: 20150347750
Application ID: 14292700
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A computing system implemented method for providing a security threat scoring service to identify and prioritize potential security threats for an online service, comprising: determining, with a computing system, security threat patterns by: monitoring first traffic between the online service and a test program, wherein the first traffic includes requests for information transmitted to the online service from the test program; recording patterns associated with the first traffic between the test program and the online service, wherein the patterns associated with the first traffic include durations of delays between transmission of requests from the test program to the online service; and defining deviations from the patterns as the security threat patterns; comparing second traffic between one or more external computing systems and the online service to the security threat patterns; identifying portions of the second traffic as a potential security threat, if the portions of the second traffic correlate with at least one of the security threat patterns; assigning a threat score to the potential security threat at least partially based on a potential impact of the potential security threat on the online service; and providing the threat score to the online service to enable the online service to secure against the potential security threat.