SAFETY EVALUATION METHOD AND SAFETY EVALUATION COMPUTER

• US 20140351323A1
• Filed: 11/02/2011
• Published: 11/27/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/02/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Hirata, Yuichiro, Sumida, Tomoyo
• Application Number:
  US14/356,101
• Publication Number:
  US 20140351323A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/10 Services
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/26 Government or public services business processes related to the transportation industry G06Q50/40
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/75 Indicating network or usage conditions on the user display

Abstract

A safety evaluation computer evaluates safety of user data which is data of a client computer and relating to storage into a server computer based on a server area ID which is an area ID of an area where the server computer is located, and displays a result of evaluation of the safety.

Claims

1. A safety evaluation method to be executed by a computer system having a client computer, a safety evaluation computer, and a server computer, the method comprising:

evaluating safety of user data which is data of the client computer and relating to storage into the server computer based on a server area ID which is an area ID of an area where the server computer is located, and displaying a result of evaluation of the safety.

2. The safety evaluation method according to claim 1,

wherein evaluation of the safety of the user data is executed further based on a client area ID which is an area ID of an area where the client computer storing the user data is located.

3. The safety evaluation method according to claim 2,

wherein evaluation of the safety of the user data is executed based on regulation information in the area corresponding to the server area ID.

4. The safety evaluation method according to claim 3, comprising:

receiving attribute information relating to evaluation of the safety of the user data; and

evaluating the safety of the user data based on the attribute information.

5. The safety evaluation method according to claim 4,

wherein the regulation information includes information relating to presence/absence of regulations on disclosure or seizure of data stored in the server computer in the area corresponding to the server area ID, and

wherein safety on disclosure or seizure of the user data is evaluated based on the regulation information.

6. The safety evaluation method according to claim 5,

wherein the safety on disclosure or seizure of the user data is evaluated based on a criterion of whether accepting disclosure or seizure of the user data of a user of the client computer.

7. The safety evaluation method according to claim 6,

wherein the regulation information includes a regulation name for the regulations for disclosure or seizure of data stored in the server computer, and

wherein, when evaluation of the safety on disclosure or seizure of the user data has a problem with safety, a name of regulations based on which it is determined that there is the problem is displayed.

8. The safety evaluation method according to claim 7,

wherein the regulation information includes information on regulations on export control of data in the area corresponding to the client area ID, and

wherein safety on export of the user data is evaluated based on the regulation information.

9. The safety evaluation method according to claim 8,

wherein, when the attribute information for the user data or the regulation information is changed, safety of the user data is evaluated again, and

wherein a result of re-evaluation is displayed.

10. The safety evaluation method according to claim 9, comprising:

detecting other server computers located in areas where there is not a problem with safety of the user data, and displaying information of the other server computers.

11. The safety evaluation method according to claim 10,

wherein the user data is reallocated in one of the other server computers.

12. A safety evaluation computer having a processor and a storage device,

wherein the storage device is configured to store a server area ID which is an area ID of an area where a server computer capable of storing data is located and information relating to evaluation of safety of data in the area in association with each other, and

wherein the processor is configured to

evaluate safety of data b based on the server area ID at a time of storing the data in the server computer, and

display a result of evaluation of the safety on a predetermined apparatus.

13. The safety evaluation computer according to claim 12,

wherein the storage device is configured to store the server area ID and regulation information relating to evaluation of safety of data in the area with the server area ID in association with each other, and

wherein the processor is configured to evaluate the safety of data based on the server area ID and the regulation information at a time of storing the data in the server computer.

14. The safety evaluation computer according to claim 13,

wherein the regulation information includes information relating to presence/absence of regulations on disclosure or seizure of data stored in the server computer in the area with the server area ID.

15. The safety evaluation computer according to claim 13,

wherein the storage device is configured to store a client area ID which is an area ID of an area where a client computer storing the data is located, and regulation information on export control of data in the area corresponding to the client area ID, and

wherein safety on export of the user data is evaluated based on the regulation information.