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Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2016

Filed:

Jul. 17, 2014
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Richard S. Garraway, Winchester, GB;

Martin J. Hitchman, Winchester, GB;

Richard Postlethwaite, Hursley, GB;

Mark R. Wilson, Hursley, GB;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/62 (2013.01); G06F 21/55 (2013.01); G06F 21/57 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/554 (2013.01); G06F 21/6245 (2013.01); G06F 21/552 (2013.01); G06F 21/577 (2013.01);
Abstract

Improving the integrity of a computer system including a plurality of user accounts by, for each user account, monitoring events on the computer system that are related to the user account, assigning an importance score to the monitored user account that is indicative of the importance of the monitored user account to the integrity of the computer system, the importance score being calculated from the monitored events, and providing the importance score to a system administrator upon the administrator attempting to alter the monitored user account.


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