Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Eyal Zangi

Lior Arzi

Efim Hudis

Sterling M Reasor

Tomer Weisberg

Yair Helman

Shai Rubin

Yosef Dinerstein

Igal Figlin

Moshe Sapir

Ahmad S Hussain

Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to a mechanism for assessing security. In aspects, an analytics engine is provided that manages execution, information storage, and data passing between various components of a security system. When data is available for analysis, the analytics engine determines which security components to execute and the order in which to execute the security components, where in some instances two or more components may be executed in parallel. The analytics engine then executes the components in the order determined and passes output from component to component as dictated by dependencies between the components. This is repeated until a security assessment is generated or updated. The analytics engine simplifies the work of creating and integrating various security components.

Analytics engine

Tracking malware state information assigned to computers in an enterprise network is described. A computer may transition from a current malware state to a new malware state in accordance with a plurality of stored rules and detection of an anti-malware event on the computer. Examples of anti-malware events include, but are not limited to, detection of new malware on the computer or cleaning of the computer. The malware state information for computers on the network may be mapped to a risk level representing an amount of risk that infected computers present to other computers on the network. The results of a risk level assessment for the computers on the network may be output via a user interface to enable an administrator of the network to prioritize servicing of computers with detected malware.

System and method for prioritizing computers based on anti-malware events

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