Compliance Verification System

A method of providing type- and application-independent compliance checking for a user system, the method comprising:

• receiving a request for compliance validation;
• initiating the compliance validation in response to receiving the request;
• wherein the compliance validation comprises one or more of:
• an encryption compliance validation, writing to a drive of the device to determine whether the drive is encrypted;
• and
• a password compliance validation, verifying that a password meets password requirements;
• when the compliance validation passes, enabling access to a secured resource;
• and
• when the compliance validation fails, redirecting the device to a site to prompt changes to one or more settings of the user system for compliance.

A device type independent compliance checker to validate compliance of a user system with a policy prior to providing access to privileged data for the user system, the compliance checker comprising:

• a compliance checker plug-in on the device, the compliance checker plug-in receiving a request for compliance validation when the device attempts to access a secured resource;
• a compliance checker agent to initiate a compliance check in response to receiving the request, the compliance check including:
• an encryption check, to verify that an encryption meets encryption standards;
• and
• a password check, to verify that one or more passwords in the user system meet password standards;
• the compliance checker plug-in to determine a compliance level of the device, based on data from the compliance checker agent;
• and
• when the compliance level is below 100%, a compliance verifier to determine the policy, wherein the policy determines whether to provide limited access to the secured resource or redirect the device to an installation site to install software for the 100% compliance level.

A compliance check system to provide compliance validation for a user system, the user system including a user device, a communication device, and a network device to provide access to the Internet, the compliance check system comprising:

• a compliance checker plug-in on the user device used to access a secured resource via the Internet, the compliance checker plug-in receiving a request for compliance validation prior to providing access to the secured resource, the compliance checker plug-in triggering compliance checkers;
• the compliance checker including a password compliance checker configured to determine whether passwords of one or more of the user device, an application being used, the communication device, and the network device in the user system meet with password compliance requirements;
• the compliance checker plug-in verifying the compliance status based on data from the compliance checker;
• when the compliance status of the device is failure, the compliance check system to redirect to a site to remediate the failure;
• and
• when the compliance status of the device is passing, permitting access to the secured resource.