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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2011
Filed:
May. 15, 2006
Enrica Alberti, Rome, IT;
Mauro Arcese, Fontanna Liri, IT;
Gianluca Bernardini, Rome, IT;
Rosario Gangemi, Lavinio-Rome, IT;
Luigi Piciietti, Rome, IT;
Enrica Alberti, Rome, IT;
Mauro Arcese, Fontanna Liri, IT;
Gianluca Bernardini, Rome, IT;
Rosario Gangemi, Lavinio-Rome, IT;
Luigi Piciietti, Rome, IT;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A software patch management solution is proposed. The devised solution is based on the idea of automating the installation of the patches through a software distribution infrastructure. An automation engine is added to a distribution server. The automation engine interfaces with a patch provider acting as a proxy, which stores a local copy of the patches and of a patch catalogue for detecting corresponding vulnerabilities. The automation engine automatically builds a distribution plan for deploying the patches to the relevant endpoints, according to a vulnerability catalogue that stores the actual exposures of the endpoints. The distribution plan arranges the required activities in the correct order, to minimize the number of rebooting of the endpoints; the distribution plan ends with an activity for scanning the endpoints, to update the vulnerability catalogue accordingly.