Phillip U Singleton

US Patent:

20060156408, Jul 13, 2006

Filed:

Jan 11, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/033436

Inventors:

Kevin Himberger - Durham NC, US
Clark Jeffries - Chapel Hill NC, US
Charles Lingafelt - Durham NC, US
Allen Roginsky - Durham NC, US
Phillip Singleton - Raleigh NC, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

H04L 9/32
G06F 15/16
G06F 11/00
G06F 17/00
G06F 11/22
G06F 17/30
G06F 9/00
G06F 11/30
G06F 7/04
G06F 11/32
G06F 7/58
G06F 11/34
G06K 19/00
G06F 11/36
G06K 9/00
G06F 12/14
G06F 12/16
G06F 15/18
G08B 23/00

US Classification:

726025000, 726003000, 726014000

Abstract:

A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for providing a current and complete security compliance view of an enterprise system. The present invention provides the ability to gain a real-time security posture and security compliance view of an enterprise and to assess the risk impact of known threats and attacks to continued business operations at various levels is provided. Responsive to a change to an enterprise environment, a request, or an external threat, an administrator loads or updates at least one of a Critical Application Operations database, a Historical database, an Access Control database, a Connectivity database, and a Threat database. Based on a comparison of information in the databases against similar security data elements from company or external policies, the administrator may generate a Security Compliance view of the enterprise. A Security Posture view may also be generated by comparing the Security Compliance view against data in the Threat database.

US Patent:

20070016456, Jan 18, 2007

Filed:

Jul 12, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/179429

Inventors:

Kevin Himberger - Durham NC, US
Clark Jeffries - Chapel Hill NC, US
Allen Roginsky - Durham NC, US
Charles Lingafelt - Durham NC, US
Phillip Singleton - Raleigh NC, US

Assignee:

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION - ARMONK NY

International Classification:

G06F 9/44

US Classification:

705007000

Abstract:

System, method and program product for reporting status of a process. A flow chart illustrates steps of the process and an order for performance of the steps. Then, a determination is made whether any of the steps has been performed. In response to a determination that any of the steps has been performed, graphically representing on the flow chart that the step has been performed. The graphical representation can be color-coding of the step. The determination that a step has been performed can be made based on user input that the step has been performed, or automatically by a program checking a record indicating that the step has been performed. Also, a program can automatically determine that a deadline for performing one of the steps has passed without performance of the one step. In response, the program initiates a graphical representation on the one step in the flowchart that the deadline has passed without performance of the one step. A program can also automatically determine that a problem has occurred in performing one of the steps, and in response, graphically represent on the one step in the flowchart that a problem has occurred with the one step.