Sdk-equipped anti-vulnerability system, method, and computer program product

A computer program product embodied on a non-transitory computer readable medium, comprising:

• code for receiving an identification of at least one of an operating system or an application associated with at least one of a plurality of devices;
• code for identifying potential attacks in connection with the at least one of the device;
• code for causing, in response to the potential attacks, a plurality of diverse mitigation actions in connection with attempted exploitation of only a subset of a plurality of vulnerabilities including actual vulnerabilities resulting from the identified at least one of the operating system or the application associated with the at least one device for reducing false-positives, the diverse mitigation actions including:
• an actual vulnerability-based intrusion prevention system action that at least mitigates attacks while reducing false-positives, and
• an actual vulnerability-based firewall action that at least mitigates attacks while reducing false-positives.

A computer program product embodied on a non-transitory computer readable medium, comprising:

• code for accessing a data structure describing a plurality of mitigation techniques that mitigate a plurality of attacks that take advantage of a plurality of vulnerabilities, for retrieving a plurality of options in connection with a portion of the mitigation techniques that correspond with a subset of the plurality of the vulnerabilities resulting from an operating system and an application indicated to be on at least one device;
• code for presenting the plurality of options in connection with the portion of mitigation techniques that correspond with the subset of the plurality of the vulnerabilities resulting from the operating system and the application indicated to be on the at least one device, the plurality of options relating to an intrusion prevention mitigation technique and a firewall mitigation technique;
• code for receiving first user input selecting the intrusion prevention mitigation technique in connection with the subset of the plurality of the vulnerabilities resulting from the operating system and the application indicated to be on the at least one device;
• code for receiving second user input selecting the firewall mitigation technique in connection with the subset of the plurality of the vulnerabilities resulting from the operating system and the application indicated to be on the at least one device;
• code for, based on the first user input, applying the selected the intrusion prevention mitigation technique in connection with the subset of the plurality of the vulnerabilities resulting from the operating system and the application indicated to be on the at least one device, for occurrence mitigation;
• code for, based on the second user input, applying the selected firewall mitigation technique in connection with the subset of the plurality of the vulnerabilities resulting from the operating system and the application indicated to be on the at least one device, for occurrence mitigation;
• code for identifying an occurrence including one or more packets directed to the at least one of the device;
• code for determining whether the occurrence is capable of taking advantage of at least one of the subset of the plurality of the vulnerabilities resulting from the operating system and the application indicated to be on the at least one device;
• and
• code for preventing the occurrence from taking advantage of the at least one of the subset of the plurality of the vulnerabilities, utilizing at least one of the intrusion prevention mitigation technique or the firewall mitigation technique based on the application thereof, based on the determination whether the occurrence is capable of taking advantage of the at least one of the subset of the plurality of the vulnerabilities resulting from the operating system and the application indicated to be on the at least one device.

A computer program product embodied on a non-transitory computer readable medium, comprising:

• code for receiving actual vulnerability information from at least one first data structure that is generated utilizing potential vulnerability information from at least one second data structure that is capable of being used to identify a plurality of potential vulnerabilities, by including:
• at least one first potential vulnerability, and
• at least one second potential vulnerability;
• said actual vulnerability information being generated utilizing the potential vulnerability information by:
• identifying at least one configuration associated with at least one of a plurality of networked devices, the at least one configuration relating to at least one of an operating system or an application of the at least one networked device, and
• determining that at least one networked device is actually vulnerable to at least one actual vulnerability based on the identified at least one configuration, utilizing the potential vulnerability information that is capable of being used to identify the plurality of potential vulnerabilities;
• said actual vulnerability information from the at least one first data structure capable of being used for identifying the at least one actual vulnerability to which at least one networked device is actually vulnerable;
• code for determining whether an attack is capable of taking advantage of the at least one actual vulnerability to which at least one networked device is actually vulnerable;
• and
• code for applying different attack mitigation actions of diverse attack mitigation types, including a firewall-based attack mitigation type and an intrusion prevention system-based attack mitigation type, for preventing the attack from taking advantage of the at least one actual vulnerability at the at least one networked device, based on the determination whether the attack is capable of taking advantage of the at least one actual vulnerability to which at least one networked device is actually vulnerable, the at least one actual vulnerability being determined as a function of the at least one of the operating system or the application of the at least one networked device and the different attack mitigation actions being specific to the at least one actual vulnerability, thereby resulting in relevant attack mitigation actions of the diverse attack mitigation types being applied based on the determination whether one or more attacks are capable of taking advantage of only relevant actual vulnerabilities.