Aggregate Breach Profile for Consumer Risk Assessment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems fail to effectively aggregate and analyze data breach information from multiple breaches to provide consumers with a clear understanding of accumulated risk and appropriate mitigation actions, leading to inadequate risk management and harm mitigation.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that aggregates data breach information to generate an aggregate breach profile, using outputs from a data breach assessment system to provide consumers with a consolidated display of risk scores, potential harms, and prioritized mitigation actions, accessible through a user interface.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If data breach information from multiple breaches is aggregated and analyzed to generate an aggregate breach profile, then consumers can understand accumulated risk and take appropriate mitigation actions, but the system complexity and data processing requirements increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments breach information into discrete data elements from multiple breaches, processes each element individually through standardized algorithms, and then aggregates the results into an overall risk profile. This segmentation allows complex multi-breach analysis to be broken down into manageable, repeatable units that can be processed systematically.
Solution Approach 2:
The system employs universal algorithms and standardized processing methods that can handle diverse breach information from different sources and breach types. The same risk assessment algorithms are applied across multiple breaches, providing consistent and comparable results regardless of the specific breach characteristics, thereby managing complexity through standardization.
2Ease of operation
If individual breach information is analyzed separately without aggregation, then the analysis process remains simple and manageable, but consumers cannot understand the accumulated risk from multiple breaches
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges individual breach profiles into a consolidated aggregate breach profile that displays accumulated risk information. By combining multiple discrete breach analyses into a unified view with an overall risk score, the system maintains the simplicity of individual breach processing while adding the valuable context of cumulative risk that consumers need for informed decision-making.
3Measurement precision
If comprehensive breach information from multiple sources is collected and processed, then consumers receive a complete picture of their risk exposure, but the data processing time and computational resources increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary processing of breach information as it is collected, standardizing and pre-analyzing data elements before they need to be aggregated into the final risk profile. This preliminary action prepares the data in advance, reducing the computational burden during final aggregation and enabling faster generation of complete risk profiles when consumers request them.
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AI summary
A method and system for apprising a consumer of an accumulated risk resulting from data breaches. The method and system may include determining one or more breach events for a consumer, generating an accumulated harm risk score for the consumer, optionally with the accumulated harm risk score providing a relative indicator of overall risk accumulated for the consumer as result of the breach events, identifying one or more potential harms for one or more of the breach events, optionally with the potential harms indicating a likely or probable impact, injury, or damage to the consumer from one or more of the breach events, and identifying one or more mitigation actions for one or more of the breach events, optionally with the mitigation actions detailing options available to the consumer for reducing risk associated with one or more of the potential harms.