Systems and methods for security tiering in peer-to-peer networking

An information handling system comprising:

• a processor;
• a memory communicatively coupled to the processor having stored thereon a peer-to-peer agent comprising one or more instructions, the instructions for causing the processor to, when read and executed by the processor:
• determine, based on published messages from one or more of other information handling systems indicative of availability of the one or more other information handling systems for peer-to-peer networking, one or more potential peer information handling systems of the other information handling systems to which the information handling system may potentially couple for peer-to-peer networking;
• receive from each of one or more of the potential peer information handling systems a connection request comprising a peer minimum acceptable security level for the peer information handling system;
• compare the peer minimum acceptable security level to a security level of the information handling system;
• and
• complete a peer-to-peer connection between the information handling system and the peer information handling system if the minimum acceptable security level is not higher than that of the security level of the information handling system.