METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING WIRELESS VULNERABILITY MANAGEMENT FOR LOCAL AREA COMPUTER NETWORKS

摘要

A Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) based method for providing wireless vulnerability management for local area computer networks. The method includes providing a security server being hosted by a service provider entity to provide analysis of data associated with wireless vulnerability management for a plurality of local area computer networks of a plurality of customer entities, respectively. The method includes creating a workspace for wireless vulnerability management for a customer entity on the security server and receiving configuration information associated with the workspace. The method also includes supplying one or more sniffers to the customer entity. The method includes receiving at the security server information associated with wireless activity monitored by the one or more sniffers at premises of the customer entity and processing the received information within the workspace for the customer entity using the security server. The method includes metering usage of the workspace for wireless vulnerability management for the customer entity.

主权项

1. A Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) based method for providing wireless vulnerability management for local area computer networks, the method comprising:
providing a security server, the security server being hosted by a service provider entity, the security server being coupled to the Internet, the security server being adapted to provide analysis of data associated with wireless vulnerability management for a plurality of local area computer networks of a plurality of customer entities, respectively; creating a workspace for wireless vulnerability management for a first customer entity on the security server, the creating the workspace being responsive to a request from the first customer entity to subscribe to wireless vulnerability management; receiving configuration information associated with the workspace for the first customer entity at the security server; supplying one or more sniffers to the first customer entity; receiving connection requests at the security server over the Internet from the one or more sniffers, respectively, subsequent to the one or more sniffers being deployed at premises of the first customer entity; associating identities of the one or more sniffers with the workspace for the first customer entity at the security server; receiving at the security server information associated with wireless activity monitored by the one or more sniffers at the premises of the first customer entity, the receiving being receiving over the Internet; processing the received information associated with the wireless activity within the workspace for the first customer entity using the security server; and metering usage of the workspace for wireless vulnerability management for the first customer entity.