Centralized Fingerprint Server for Remote Agent Security Lookups
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Solution Overview
Problem
Organizations face challenges in protecting and monitoring large volumes of digital information across numerous egress points, as maintaining redundant fingerprint databases becomes costly and complex, and existing solutions like encryption and watermarks do not effectively prevent unauthorized disclosure.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a system with remote agents that generate fingerprints from user information and transmit them to a central fingerprint server for lookup, eliminating the need for local database replication and allowing efficient updating and management of fingerprint databases, while using a network for communication.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If fingerprint databases are replicated at each egress point location, then security monitoring capability is improved, but system complexity and maintenance cost increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the fingerprint database from multiple distributed locations and consolidates it into a single centralized database. Instead of replicating databases at each egress point, the system maintains one master database that all agents query remotely, eliminating replication complexity while preserving security monitoring capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a fingerprint server as an intermediary component that mediates between protect agents and the centralized fingerprint database. This server handles all database operations, queries, and updates, allowing agents to maintain security monitoring without directly managing local database copies.
2Reliability
If fingerprint databases are replicated at each egress point location, then local security verification is improved, but database maintenance and updating become prohibitively difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent removes the burden of database maintenance from individual egress points by extracting the database management function and centralizing it. The centralized database can be updated, modified, and maintained from a single location, eliminating the need to synchronize updates across multiple replicated databases.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements a feedback mechanism where protect agents periodically query the centralized fingerprint database to retrieve updated fingerprint information. This ensures that all agents have access to the latest security data without requiring manual updates or complex synchronization protocols.
3Productivity
If multiple individual fingerprint databases are maintained across numerous egress points, then local lookup efficiency is improved, but the quantity of databases to manage becomes prohibitively large
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple distributed fingerprint databases into a single centralized database. Instead of maintaining separate databases at each egress point, all fingerprint data is consolidated in one location, reducing the quantity of databases from many to one while enabling efficient centralized management.
Solution Approach 2:
The centralized fingerprint database serves as a universal resource for all protect agents across the organization. A single database provides fingerprint verification services to numerous egress points, eliminating the need for each location to maintain its own database while ensuring consistent security policies are applied organization-wide.
Data Source
AI summary
The present invention provides methods and systems to protect an organization's secure information from unauthorized disclosure. The present system uses protect agents installed across various egress points (e.g., email server, user's computer, etc.) to monitor information disclosed by a user. The present system also provides the use of fingerprint servers to remotely maintain a database of fingerprints associated with the organization's secure data. In one embodiment, the protect agents transmit fingerprints associated with the user's information to the fingerprint server utilizing a local network or the public internet. The protect agents then receive a comparison analysis from the fingerprint servers and execute appropriate security action based on the analysis. In one embodiment, a combination of the local network and public internet is utilized to achieve remote agent lookups.