Browser Extension Security Overlays for SaaS Vendor Pages
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Solution Overview
Problem
Security vendors face challenges in providing seamless integration of cloud-based security solutions with cloud service providers (CSPs) due to separate accounts and displays for target vendors and security vendors, leading to cumbersome navigation and workflow inefficiencies.
Innovation Solution
A browser extension that integrates security information from a security vendor with web pages of a target vendor by fingerprinting URLs and HTML/XML patterns, allowing for a consolidated view of web page content and security details within a single browser display.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If separate accounts and displays are used for target vendors and security vendors, then account security management is maintained, but navigation complexity and workflow inefficiency increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the security vendor's account interface with the target vendor's web page display by injecting security information directly into the browser. This integration allows users to view both security status and vendor content in a single unified display, eliminating the need to navigate between separate accounts and displays while maintaining proper account security management through the embedded security module.
2Reliability
If multiple displays and sessions are used for security information, then comprehensive security monitoring is achieved, but user time and workflow efficiency decrease
Solution Approach 1:
The system combines multiple security monitoring displays into a single integrated view by embedding security information modules directly within the target vendor's web pages. This allows comprehensive security monitoring to be achieved in one unified display rather than requiring users to switch between multiple displays and sessions, thereby reducing time loss while maintaining thorough security oversight.
Solution Approach 2:
The security information is pre-fetched and embedded into the web page display before the user needs to view it. By proactively loading and integrating security status, alerts, and workflow information into the browser session in advance, the system eliminates the need for users to manually navigate to separate security displays, thus reducing user time and improving workflow efficiency.
3Measurement precision
If separate security vendor and target vendor displays are used, then security information accuracy is maintained, but information integration and accessibility deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a browser extension or injected script as an intermediary that bridges the security vendor's data and the target vendor's web page display. This intermediary component retrieves accurate security information from the security vendor's systems and embeds it directly into the target vendor's web interface, maintaining information accuracy while achieving seamless integration and improving accessibility without requiring users to switch between separate displays.
Data Source
AI summary
A browser extension produces a single view comprising content of web pages of a target vendor requested by a customer and corresponding security information for the target vendor maintained for the customer. Fingerprints of the target vendor's web page URLs and web page elements corresponding to resources, respectively, are determined. As the web browser retrieves web pages and the customer selects web page elements that identify resources, the browser extension matches URLs and/or HTML/XML syntactic patterns of the retrieved web pages to the fingerprints to determine the security information to obtain from backend storage. The type/granularity of information that is retrieved can vary depending on the identified fingerprint match. The browser extension retrieves security information corresponding to fingerprints for which matches are identified, generates security overviews therefrom, and integrates the security overviews into the requested web pages to generate a consolidated, multi-perspective view.