Receiving security risk feedback from linked contacts due to a user's system actions and behaviors
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsSaurabh Bhola, Mark Crosbie, Gary Denner, Daniel C. Gurney, Rohit Jain
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Abstract
An approach is provided in receiving risk feedback from a social network. Feedback transmissions are received by a user's system with each of the feedback transmissions being received over a computer network from a social network contact. The received feedback transmissions are analyzed and, based on the analysis, a risky action that was performed by the user is identified. The user performs a risk avoidance measure to counteract the identified risky action. In one embodiment, the risk avoidance measure is reported back to the user's contacts.
Claims16
An information handling system comprising:
- one or more processors;
- a memory coupled to at least one of the processors;
- a network adapter that connects the information handling system to a computer network;
- and
- a set of instructions stored in the memory and executed by at least one of the processors in order to perform actions of:
- receiving, at the information handling system, a plurality of feedback transmissions from one or more social network contacts, the plurality of feedback transmissions corresponding to one or more risky action notifications previously sent to the one or more social network contacts from the information handling system;
- analyzing the received feedback transmissions;
- identifying, based on the analysis, a risky action being performed by a user of the information handling system;
- and
- performing, by the information handling system, a risk avoidance measure to counteract the identified risky action.
A computer program product stored in a computer readable storage device, comprising functional descriptive material that, when executed by an information handling system, causes the information handling system to perform actions that include:
- receiving, at the information handling system, a plurality of feedback transmissions from one or more social network contacts, the plurality of feedback transmissions corresponding to one or more risky action notifications previously sent to the one or more social network contacts from the information handling system;
- analyzing the received feedback transmissions;
- identifying, based on the analysis, a risky action being performed by a user of the information handling system;
- and
- performing, by the information handling system, a risk avoidance measure to counteract the identified risky action.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.