Secure Cloud Browser Insulating User Identity
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users navigating unsecure networks, such as the Internet, are exposed to various data security risks, including unwanted exposure of location and identity information.
Innovation Solution
A secure cloud browser system that allows users to access Internet content through a remote cloud browsing session, where the system determines the user's location and enterprise network, communicates with the content source to access the content, and transmits an image representation of the content to the user's device, while encrypting and logging relevant data.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a user device directly communicates with an Internet content source to access web content, then the ease of operation is improved, but the user's location and identity information may be exposed to security risks
Solution Approach 1:
A remote cloud browsing session is introduced as an intermediary between the user device and the Internet content source. The system establishes a cloud browsing session that mediates all communications, allowing users to access web content without their device directly contacting the content source. This intermediary cloud session protects the user's location and identity while maintaining ease of content access.
2Speed
If the user device accesses Internet content directly, then the speed of content retrieval is improved, but the reliability of data security is worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The cloud browsing session acts as a secure intermediary that maintains fast content retrieval while ensuring data security. The system handles all secure communications through the cloud session, which manages encryption, authentication, and secure data transmission, thereby maintaining both speed and security reliability.
Solution Approach 2:
The system segments the browsing functionality into separate components: the user device provides the interface, the cloud browsing session handles secure communications and content retrieval, and the content source provides the actual content. This segmentation allows each component to specialize in its function, maintaining security while ensuring fast content delivery.
3Reliability
If the system encrypts and logs browsing data for security, then the reliability of data protection is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The cloud browsing session serves as an intermediary that handles all complex encryption and logging operations. Instead of implementing these security mechanisms in the user device, the system performs cryptographic operations, data encryption, and secure logging within the cloud session, thereby maintaining high data protection reliability while keeping the user device simple.
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AI summary
Embodiments described herein may be directed to systems, methods, apparatuses, devices, computer program products, computer-executable instructions, and/or applications for providing a remote cloud browsing session. A remote cloud browsing session may receive a request for Internet content from a user device, access the Internet content from an Internet content source, and transmit second Internet content to the user device based on the requested Internet content.