Annotation Platform for Security Risk Systems
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current security risk analysis systems lack an efficient mechanism for users to annotate and manage security information related to entities and their technology assets, such as IP addresses and domains, which hinders effective risk assessment and mitigation.
Innovation Solution
An annotation platform that allows users to add, alter, or remove annotations indicative of security risks associated with security subjects, enabling the management and presentation of security information through a computer-based system, including user interfaces for web sites and mobile apps, with features like tagging, grouping, and permission management.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If a centralized security risk analysis system accumulates and processes information about entities and their technology assets, then security risk assessment capability is improved, but the system lacks efficient mechanisms for users to annotate and manage security information, hindering effective risk assessment and mitigation
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an annotation platform as an intermediary layer between users and the centralized security risk analysis system. This platform enables users to add, modify, and remove annotations on security information without directly modifying the core system's data structures. The annotation facility acts as a mediator that enhances user interaction capabilities while preserving the integrity of the underlying security risk analysis infrastructure.
2Adaptability or versatility
If security information is presented to users through computer-based systems, then accessibility and sharing of security annotations is improved, but the system complexity increases due to multiple user interfaces and permission management requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The annotation platform is designed with universal functionality that operates across multiple device types and interfaces. The same core annotation management system serves web browsers, mobile applications, and other client platforms through standardized APIs and communication protocols. This multi-functional design allows the system to provide consistent annotation capabilities across diverse access points without requiring separate implementation for each platform.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs an intermediary annotation facility that handles the complexity of permission management and interface coordination. This intermediary layer abstracts the complex permission checking and user authentication logic from the core security risk analysis system, managing access control for annotations while presenting simplified interfaces to end users across different platforms.
3Productivity
If users are able to add, alter, or remove annotations for entities they are affiliated with, then user engagement and security diligence capability is improved, but permission management complexity and security control requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements local quality by providing differentiated annotation capabilities based on user affiliation and permission levels. Users can add, modify, and remove annotations for entities they are affiliated with, while viewing capabilities are extended to public information for other entities. This localized permission structure enables targeted security diligence activities where users have full control over their own entity annotations while maintaining read-only access to external entity information.
Solution Approach 2:
The annotation facility serves as an intermediary that manages the complexity of permission checks and user affiliations. It handles the logic for determining which users can annotate which entities, filtering requests based on affiliation relationships without requiring the core security risk analysis system to implement complex access control mechanisms.
Data Source
AI summary
Among other things, information is acquired and stored that is indicative of security risks associated with security subjects and with entities to which the security subjects belong. The stored information is analyzed by computer to derive security indicators for the entities. With respect to entities selected by the users, security information is presented by computer to users. The security information includes security indicators for the entities and security information for security subjects. The security information for security subjects includes annotations provided by users. The annotations are managed by computer based on communications from the users.