Universal API Gateway for Secure Data Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Organizations face significant time and cost burdens in developing custom application programming interfaces (APIs) for third parties to access sensitive data, with potential miscommunication and shifting needs leading to redevelopments, and existing solutions fail to provide secure access while maintaining data ownership and control.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that provide secure access to organization data by using a user interface to transmit computer-executable instructions to a storage device, scheduling execution on available computers within a cluster based on RAM, processing, and concurrent connection capabilities, with authentication and permission-based data access, ensuring the organization retains control over its data.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a separate and distinct API is created for each third party to access sensitive data, then secure access and data control are maintained, but development time and cost increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal API gateway that serves multiple third parties through a single interface. The gateway provides authentication, authorization, and data access control services to various third parties without requiring separate API implementations for each party, thereby reducing development time while maintaining security and data control.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an API gateway as an intermediary component between the organization's data systems and multiple third parties. This gateway mediates all access requests, enforcing security policies and data control rules centrally, eliminating the need to create separate secure interfaces for each third party while preserving data ownership and control.
2Adaptability or versatility
If a separate API is developed for each third party, then specific needs are met, but the complexity of maintenance and updates increases
Solution Approach 1:
The universal API gateway consolidates multiple third-party-specific APIs into a single system. It handles authentication, authorization, rate limiting, and data access for various third parties through unified configuration, reducing the complexity of maintaining and updating multiple separate APIs while still accommodating diverse third-party needs through flexible policy enforcement.
3Reliability
If traditional API development is used for third-party access, then data security is maintained, but the organization bears significant development and redevelopment costs
Solution Approach 1:
The API gateway acts as a security intermediary that enforces data protection policies centrally. It maintains data security through unified authentication, authorization, and access control mechanisms while eliminating the need for expensive custom API development for each third party, thereby reducing overall development and redevelopment costs.
Solution Approach 2:
The universal gateway provides security services to multiple third parties through a single implementation, reducing the total cost of developing and maintaining secure access interfaces. Organizations pay once for the gateway infrastructure rather than funding multiple separate API development projects.
Data Source
AI summary
The disclosed technology includes techniques for secure access to data associated with an organization and includes providing a user device access to a user interface that is configured execute function requests. Upon receipt of a function request, a computer can access a predetermined portion of the organization's data, generate an output by executing the requested function based on the predetermined portion of the organization's data, and transmit the output to the user device.