15. A method for configuring security policies across an enterprise, the method comprising the steps of: configuring a plurality of security product endpoints in the enterprise to share security assessments over a common communication channel; defining a security assessment schema in which assessments of security events are generated by the plurality of security product endpoints in the enterprise, the security product endpoints each being configured for receiving security assessments generated by other security product endpoints over the common communication channel and each security product endpoint being further configured for generating a new security assessment for transmission over the common communication channel, in response to a received security assessment, according to rules which take into account any combination of a. locally-available information about the security events or objects being monitored by the security product endpoint, b. currently active security assessments received by the security product endpoint, and c. local actions taken by the security product endpoint in the past, in which sets of locally-available information for the security product endpoints are mutually exclusive, the security assessments i) using a pre-defined taxonomy to provide contextual meaning to the security events and, ii) being categorized by type, the type providing contextual security meaning to security-related information contained in the security assessments; and using a security assessment as an anchor point to a rules matrix, the rules matrix describing a response to each security assessment type.
20. The method of claim 15 including a further step of providing a graphical user interface for displaying a representation of the anchor point and rules matrix.