US 8,806,636 B2 · Method and system for providing terminal security checking service

Abstract

A terminal security checking service providing method and a system for the same are provided which are capable of updating information to be used as security measures even while the system is being shared among users. When one or more external media are connected to one or more terminals, information for security check is transferred to a security checking server. Security check results are transmitted through the one or more terminals, one or more external media, and an external medium initializing unit to the security checking server. Information to be used as security measure corresponding to the security check results is sent back from the security checking server through the external medium initializing unit to the one or more external media to initialize the one or more external media.

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A method for providing a terminal security checking service, the method comprising:

inserting an external medium into a terminal, wherein the external medium contains a storing unit to store a security check client software, a security check result storing unit to store results of security checking, and a security measure information storing unit to store a security patch for fixing a vulnerability in information held in at least one terminal;
establishing, by the terminal, a terminal connection between said external medium and said terminal of which a security check is performed;
automatically running said security check client software in said external medium in response to the terminal connection being established between said external medium and said terminal, including collecting information of said terminal, and transmitting the collected information to a security checking server using said terminal as an intermediary;
performing the security check at said security checking server of the collected information, producing the results of security checking, and transmitting the results to said external medium via network using said terminal as an intermediary;
storing the results received from said security checking server in said security check result storing unit of the external medium;
transmitting the results to said security checking server through an external initializing unit when said external medium is connected to said external initializing unit by inserting said external medium into the external initializing unit;
sending back from said security checking server a newest security patch as information for security measures to the external medium through said external initializing unit in response to the results received from said external medium;
and
initializing said security measure information storing unit by using the sent-back newest security patch.

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A method for providing a terminal security checking service, the method comprising:

inserting an external medium into a terminal, wherein the external medium contains a storing unit to store security check client software, a security check result storing unit to store results of security checking, and a security measure information storing unit to store a security patch for fixing a vulnerability in information held in at least one terminal;
establishing, by the terminal, a terminal connection between said external medium and said terminal of which a security check is performed;
automatically running said security check client software in said external medium in response to the terminal connection being established between said external medium and said terminal, including collecting information of said terminal, and transmitting the collected information to a security checking server using said terminal as an intermediary;
performing the security check at said security checking server of the collected information, producing the results of security checking, and transmitting the results to said external medium via network using said terminal as an intermediary;
storing the results received from said security checking server in said security check result storing unit of the external medium stores the results received from said security checking server;
transmitting the results to said security checking server through an external initializing unit when said external medium is connected to said external initializing unit by inserting said external medium into the external initializing unit;
sending back from said security checking server a newest security patch as information for security measures to the external medium through said external initializing unit in response to the results received from said external medium;
initializing said security measure information storing unit by using the sent-back newest security patch;
and
transmitting the results from said security checking server to a network connectability judging unit of a network connection managing system,
wherein the transmitting of the results from said security checking server to said network connectability judging unit is achieved by software processing between said security checking server and said network connectability judging unit.

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A method for providing a terminal security checking service, the method comprising:

inserting an external medium into a terminal, wherein the external medium contains a storing unit to store security check client software, a security check result storing unit to store results of security checking, and a security measure information storing unit to store a security patch for fixing a vulnerability in information held in at least one terminal;
establishing, by the terminal, a terminal connection between said external medium and said terminal of which a security check is performed;
automatically running said security check client software in said external medium in response to the terminal connection being established between said external medium and said terminal, including collecting information of said terminal, and transmitting the collected information to a security checking server using said terminal as an intermediary;
performing the security check at said security checking server of the collected information according to a security check policy, producing the results of security checking, and transmitting the results to said external medium via network using said terminal as an intermediary;
storing the results received from said security checking server in said security check result storing unit of the external medium;
transmitting the results to said security checking server through an external initializing unit when said external medium is connected to said external initializing unit by inserting said external medium into the external initializing unit;
sending back from said security checking server a newest security patch as information for security measures to the external medium through said external initializing unit in response to the results received from said external medium;
initializing said security measure information storing unit by using the sent-back newest security patch;
and
judging whether said terminal is to be or not to be connected to networks according to the results and according to connectability policy in a network connection managing system,
wherein a policy distributing server is connected to said security checking server and said network connection managing system and wherein said security policy and said connectability policy are distributed from said policy distributing server individually to each of said security checking server and said network connection managing system.

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A method for providing a terminal security checking service, the method comprising:

inserting an external medium into a terminal, wherein the external medium contains a storing unit to store security check client software, a security check result storing unit to store results of security checking, and a security measure information storing unit to store a security patch for fixing a vulnerability in information held in at least one terminal;
establishing, by the terminal, a terminal connection between said external medium and said terminal of which a security check is performed;
automatically running said security check client software in said external medium in response to the terminal connection being established between said external medium and said terminal, including collecting information of said terminal, and transmitting the collected information to a security checking server using said terminal as an intermediary;
and
performing the security check at said security checking server of the collected information, producing the results of security checking, and transmitting the results to said external medium via network using said terminal as an intermediary;
storing the results received from said security checking server in said security check result storing unit of the external medium;
transmitting the results to said security checking server through an external initializing unit when said external medium is connected to said external initializing unit by inserting said external medium into the external initializing unit;
sending back from said security checking server a newest security patch as information for security measures to the external medium through said external initializing unit in response to the results received from said external medium;
and
initializing said security measure information storing unit by using the sent-back newest security patch;
wherein, during a time period from start to end of the security check, information is distributed by connecting an information distributing server to the terminal.

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