Asset Status Synchronization for Cyber-Risk Update Workflows
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing networked environments, such as IoT ecosystems, face challenges in efficiently synchronizing cyber-security status updates across monitoring systems and security service providers due to the large number of assets and security risks, leading to inefficiencies in managing and updating asset states.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that involves a network monitoring system detecting cyber-security risks, generating action scripts, and a network security management server transforming and synchronizing asset data formats to ensure efficient status updates across monitoring systems and security service providers, allowing for scalable and synchronized asset management.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If manual synchronization methods are used to update asset status between monitoring systems and security service providers, then data accuracy can be maintained, but the time and labor required for synchronization increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements automated self-service synchronization where the monitoring system automatically generates action scripts and sends them to the security service provider without manual intervention. The security service provider's system automatically receives, transforms, and executes these scripts to update asset status, eliminating the need for manual data entry and synchronization while maintaining data accuracy through structured data transformation processes.
2Productivity
If automated synchronization scripts are implemented to reduce manual updates, then synchronization speed improves, but the complexity of the system increases
Solution Approach 1:
The synchronization process is segmented into distinct modular components: the monitoring system generates action scripts in a standardized format, transmits them through a communication interface, the security service provider's system receives and transforms the data, executes the scripts, and updates asset status. Each component performs a specific function independently, which reduces overall system complexity despite the automation process.
3Reliability
If comprehensive asset data is collected and synchronized across all systems, then security coverage is improved, but the amount of data to be managed and processed increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts only the essential asset status information and security risk data needed for synchronization, rather than managing and transmitting all available asset data. The action scripts contain specifically extracted relevant information about security risks, asset status changes, and required responses, reducing data volume while maintaining comprehensive security coverage through targeted data selection.
Data Source
AI summary
Methods, systems, and devices for updating cyber security status of networked assets are disclosed. In some embodiments, first asset data indicating existence of a first cyber-security risk associated with an asset and a second asset data indicating execution of an action that is configured to respond to the first cyber-security risk may be received at a device configured with synchronizing the security status of the networked assets. The device may then convert the second asset data into the format of the first asset data and transmit the same to the monitoring system that provided the first asset data to the device for asset status synchronization.