Assurance Level Setting in Cloud Information Processing

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Solution Overview

Problem

In cloud services, users must individually set assurance levels for registered information, which is inconvenient and not addressed by existing technologies.

Innovation Solution

An information processing apparatus and system that includes a reception unit for receiving information from authenticated users and a setting unit that automatically sets an assurance level using the received information and pre-registered registration information, utilizing a trust framework to establish a trust relationship for authentication.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If users individually set assurance levels for registered information in cloud services, then security and control over information are improved, but operation convenience and user effort increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveassurance level controlVSAvoiduser operation convenience

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables automatic assurance level setting by utilizing authentication information and trust relationships that are already established in the trust framework. The setting unit automatically determines appropriate assurance levels without requiring manual user input, allowing the system to serve itself in configuring security parameters based on pre-established trust data

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The trust framework establishes authentication information and trust relationships in advance before information registration occurs. By preparing these trust relationships beforehand, the system can automatically determine assurance levels during registration without requiring users to manually configure security settings at the time of registration

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Reliability

If manual assurance level setting is required for each information item, then precise security control is achieved, but time consumption and processing efficiency worsen

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesecurity control precisionVSAvoidinformation registration efficiency

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The setting unit automatically configures assurance levels by leveraging pre-established trust relationships and authentication information, enabling the system to self-determine appropriate security parameters without requiring manual user configuration for each information item, thus maintaining security precision while improving registration efficiency

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The trust framework provides universal authentication information and trust relationships that can be applied across multiple information registration operations. This multi-functional approach allows the same trust framework to serve various assurance level determination needs, improving overall processing efficiency while maintaining consistent security control

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS10922034B2Information processing apparatus, information processing system, and non-transitory computer readable medium storing information processing program

Publication Date: 2021.02.16 FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP

AI summary

An information processing apparatus includes a reception unit that receives information to be registered from a user who is authenticated using authentication information for which a trust relationship is established in advance in a trust framework, and a setting unit that sets an assurance level among a plurality of predetermined assurance levels using the information to be registered which is received by the reception unit and registration information registered in advance.