Systems and Methods for Enabling a Global Aggregated Search, While Allowing Configurable Client Anonymity

A system for global searching of aggregated security data of a plurality of disparate anonymous clients in a client base, comprising:

• at least one memory configured to store one or more searchable data stores including the security data received from the plurality of clients of the client base;
• and
• at least one processor operable to:
• record selected anonymity values for each client of the plurality of clients of the client base who have security data aggregated and included in the one or more searchable data stores;
• receive a search request having one or more search parameters from at least one client of the plurality of clients;
• generate one or more result sets responsive to the received search request;
• determine an aggregated anonymity score for each of the one or more generated result sets;
• and
• compare the aggregated anonymity score for each of the one or more generated result sets with the selected anonymity value for each client of the plurality of clients of the client base;
• and
• if the selected anonymity value of any of the clients is greater than the aggregated anonymity score, remove the security data of each client whose selected anonymity value from the generated result set is greater than the aggregate anonymity score of the generated result set.