Patent Document ID: 8959568
Application ID: 11724061

Base Claim:
1. A security-related information sharing model by which security-related information is shareable among a plurality of security product endpoints in an enterprise security environment, the model facilitating use of a method comprising the steps of: configuring the security product endpoints in the enterprise security environment to share security assessments over a common communication channel; describing an object in the environment using a security assessment of security-related information that is available to a security product endpoint, the security assessment i) being categorized by type, the type providing contextual security meaning to the security-related information and ii) being commonly utilizable by the security product endpoints, the security product endpoints each being configured for receiving security assessments published by other security product endpoints and each security product endpoint being further configured for generating a new security assessment, in response to a received security assessment, according to rules which take into account any combination of a. locally-available information about the object or other objects being monitored by the security product endpoint, b. currently active security assessments received by the security product endpoint, and c. local actions taken by the security product endpoint in the past, in which sets of locally-available information for the security product endpoints are mutually exclusive; and using a publish and subscribe model by which a publishing security product endpoint publishes the security assessment over the common communication channel that a subscribing security product endpoint receives over the common communication channel according to a subscription, the subscription being based on the security assessment type.

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Claim 9:
9. The security-related information sharing model of claim 1 in which at least one of the security product endpoints in the plurality of endpoints comprises a security solution object, the object selected from one of security product, security solution, management product, management solution, security service, or management service.