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System and method for evaluating and enhancing the security level of a network system

  • US 10,659,489 B2
  • Filed: 03/23/2018
  • Issued: 05/19/2020
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/06/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer system comprising:

  • a combination of memory that stores;

    a library of elements for a security model, each element of the element library being defined by at least a data set type and a function, and each element of the element library including a relationship with one or more other elements of the security model;

    a library of products, the product library storing information about a plurality of commercially available products, each product of the product library being deemed pertinent to a respective data set type and a respective function;

    wherein each product of the product library is associated with one or more metrics that relate to at least one of a security aspect, an effectiveness aspect, a maturity aspect, or a cost aspect of the security model;

    one or more processors to execute a set of instructions to;

    receive input from a user, the input identifying a set of products that are deployed with a network computer system;

    correlates the set of deployed products to a set of elements of the element library;

    determine an evaluation for the network computer system with respect to the one or more security aspects, the evaluation being based on the set of elements and the one or more metrics that are associated with the set of deployed products;

    generate a representation that reflects (i) the security model as applied to the network computer system, and (ii) the evaluation for the network computer system;

    provide a recommendation to the user to improve the evaluation;

    wherein the one or more processors generate the representation to have multiple dimensions, with each dimension representing at least one of multiple aspects of the security model; and

    wherein the relationships of the element library include a predefined set of hierarchical relationships in which individual levels of the set of hierarchical relationships correlating to a dimension of the multiple dimensions.

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