William Frederick Lemke

US Patent:

20130340074, Dec 19, 2013

Filed:

Jun 13, 2012

Appl. No.:

13/495504

Inventors:

Naga A. AYACHITULA - Elmsford NY, US
William A. LEMKE - Scarsdale NY, US
Rajeev PURI - Hunterville NC, US

Assignee:

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION - ARMONK NY

International Classification:

G06F 21/00

US Classification:

726 22

Abstract:

A computer hardware-implemented method, system, and/or computer program product manages software patches. A computer monitoring hardware system receives a notification of a new release of a software patch. The computer monitoring hardware system scores a security posture of a monitored computer system to generate a security posture value based on a set of computer system parameters for the monitored computer system. In response to patch control logic within the computer monitoring hardware system determining that the monitored computer system is authorized to install the software patch and that the security posture value exceeds the predetermined value, the computer monitoring hardware system retrieves and installs the software patch in the monitored computer system.