Automated Asset Evaluation System for Cybersecurity and Efficiency
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current computer systems face challenges in effectively evaluating and managing their assets and security, leading to potential cyber-attacks and operational inefficiencies due to inadequate knowledge and resource constraints within IT departments or third-party providers.
Innovation Solution
An analysis system that evaluates and collects data from system assets, providing an evaluation rating and auto-correction capabilities to identify and address deficiencies in system understanding, implementation, and operation, enhancing security and operational efficiency.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If IT departments or third-party providers manually evaluate and manage system assets, then they can identify security vulnerabilities and operational deficiencies, but they face knowledge requirements that outstrip their abilities and resource constraints
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables automated self-evaluation of assets through embedded sensors and processors that automatically collect, analyze, and report on asset conditions, security vulnerabilities, and operational deficiencies without requiring manual IT intervention for basic monitoring functions
Solution Approach 2:
Manual evaluation processes performed by IT personnel are replaced with automated electronic systems including processors that execute evaluation algorithms, sensors that collect asset data, and communication interfaces that transmit information, eliminating the need for human expertise in routine asset management
2Measurement precision
If comprehensive data collection from all system assets is performed to improve evaluation accuracy, then the system can identify more vulnerabilities and strengths, but the time and resources required for data gathering increase
Solution Approach 1:
Assets are continuously monitored and data is collected in real-time or near-real-time through embedded sensors and processors, so that evaluation information is already available when needed without requiring time-consuming data gathering campaigns
Solution Approach 2:
The system maintains continuous operation of data collection and evaluation processes through persistent sensor monitoring and automated processing, ensuring that asset information is always current and evaluation accuracy is maintained without periodic interruptions
Data Source
AI summary
An analysis system determines a system aspect of a system, determines an evaluation perspective for use in performing an asset management evaluation on the system aspect relating to a build of the system, an evaluation viewpoint corresponding to discovered information of the system and selects a plurality of data structures identifying data to be collected based thereupon. The analysis system, based upon the system aspect, the evaluation perspective, the evaluation viewpoint, and the plurality of data structures, determining context data. Based upon the plurality of data structures, the analysis system identifies a plurality of physical assets of the system for collection of data, queries the plurality of physical assets of the system to collect data to populate the plurality of data structures. The analysis system evaluates the data structures using the context data to produce an evaluation of at least some of the plurality of physical assets of the system.