Inferring security decisions from trusted users
AssigneeLenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
InventorsGary D. Cudak, Lydia M. Do, Christopher J. Hardee, Adam Roberts
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Abstract
Inferring security decisions from trusted users, including: identifying, by a security inference module on a computing device, a candidate application to be installed on the computing device; identifying, by the security inference module, one or more trusted users; identifying, by the security inference module, trusted user installation activity associated with the candidate application; and determining, by the security inference module, whether to install the candidate application in dependence upon the trusted user installation activity associated with the candidate application.
Claims7
A method comprising:
- by first program instructions on a first computing device,
- identifying a candidate application to be installed on the first computing device;
- identifying a trusted user that a user of the first computing device has identified and indicated as being trusted;
- receiving from a second computing device, an indication of installation activity of said candidate application by said trusted user on said second computing device;
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- determining whether to install the candidate application on the first computing device in dependence upon the indication of installation activity.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.