Cloud Role Risk Rating Engine for Policy-Based Access Assessment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Cloud computing platforms face challenges in efficiently organizing and accessing services and actions, and assessing the risk associated with roles, leading to difficulties in understanding and managing security risks.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for determining risk ratings of roles on cloud computing platforms by using a database to store accounts, roles, and policies, and a server with a role risk rating engine to analyze policies and transmit risk ratings, providing a comprehensive tool for risk assessment and policy management.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If documentation is organized through scattered webpage links across cloud computing platforms, then comprehensive service coverage is achieved, but user accessibility and efficiency deteriorate due to the need to click through multiple links
Solution Approach 1:
The patent consolidates scattered documentation links into a unified, centralized interface that presents all services and actions in a single accessible location. This merging approach maintains comprehensive service coverage while eliminating the need for users to navigate through multiple disconnected webpage links, directly resolving the contradiction between versatility and ease of operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary layer (the unified documentation interface) between the user and the scattered service documentation. This mediator aggregates and organizes information from multiple sources, providing users with a single point of access that maintains comprehensive coverage while dramatically improving accessibility and reducing navigation complexity.
2Adaptability or versatility
If cloud computing platforms provide extensive services and actions, then platform functionality is improved, but understanding and managing security risks becomes more difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces manual security risk assessment with an automated risk rating engine that systematically evaluates services and actions. This substitution transforms the difficult manual process of understanding security risks into an automated system that generates risk ratings, maintaining extensive platform functionality while making security risk assessment manageable and scalable.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transforms complex security risk characteristics into simplified, quantifiable risk rating parameters. By converting multifaceted security assessments into standardized risk ratings, the system maintains comprehensive service functionality while enabling efficient comparison and management of security risks across all platform services.
3Loss of information
If manual research of services and actions is required, then comprehensive understanding is achieved, but time consumption and efficiency deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary organization and aggregation of all service documentation into a unified interface before user access. This advance preparation eliminates the need for users to manually navigate through scattered links, providing comprehensive service information immediately accessible in one location, thereby maintaining complete service understanding while dramatically reducing research time.
4Device complexity
If risk ratings are not systematically determined, then system simplicity is maintained, but cyber-security effectiveness deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces risk rating parameters that transform complex security assessments into manageable quantitative values. This parameterization approach adds systematic risk determination capability without creating excessive complexity, as the risk ratings provide a standardized framework that simplifies security decision-making while significantly improving cyber-security effectiveness.
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AI summary
A system is provided including a database and a server. The database stores a plurality of cloud computing service accounts created on a cloud computing platform, a plurality of roles associated with each cloud computing service account, and a plurality of policies associated with each role. The server is in data communication with the database and containing a role risk rating engine. The role risk rating engine is configured to: select a first role of the plurality of roles from the database; retrieve the plurality of policies associated with the first role; determine a risk rating for the first role based on the plurality of policies associated with the first role; store the risk rating of the first role in the database; receive a query requesting the risk rating of the first role; and in response to the query, transmit the risk rating of the first role.