Cloud Platform Security Adapter for Container Integration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Cloud-native applications deployed using container technology face challenges in security due to the complexity of configuration and connection, making it difficult to implement and manage security tools effectively within a cloud platform environment.
Innovation Solution
A method and apparatus for interworking a cloud platform and security tools, which involves checking for security records, determining interworking decisions, requesting resources, and storing resources to enable seamless integration and operation of security tools with the cloud platform, particularly for container images, enhancing security confirmation and application processes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If security tools are integrated with cloud platform for cloud-native applications, then security confirmation and application processes are enhanced, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a cloud platform security adapter as an intermediary component that mediates between the cloud platform and security tools. This adapter handles the complex integration logic, resource management, and coordination between different systems, thereby enhancing security while isolating the complexity within the adapter layer rather than propagating it throughout the entire system.
Solution Approach 2:
The security adapter is designed with multi-functional capabilities to handle diverse security tool integrations, resource management, and security processes through a unified interface. This universal approach allows the system to work with multiple security tools and cloud platforms without increasing overall system complexity, as the adapter absorbs the variability and provides a consistent interface.
2Extent of automation
If security tools are integrated with cloud platform, then security processes are automated, but ease of operation decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The security adapter implements self-service mechanisms by automatically managing security tool resources, coordinating security processes, and handling integration logic without requiring manual intervention. The adapter autonomously requests resources from the cloud platform, manages security tool invocations, and processes security confirmations, thereby achieving automation while maintaining operational simplicity through the unified adapter interface.
3Adaptability or versatility
If security tools are integrated with cloud platform, then compatibility with security tools is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The security adapter serves as an intermediary layer that handles the complexity of integrating with multiple security tools and cloud platforms. It provides standardized interfaces and adaptation logic within the adapter itself, allowing different security tools to be compatible with the cloud platform without increasing the complexity of the overall system architecture. The adapter absorbs the integration complexity internally.
Solution Approach 2:
The adapter is designed with universal capabilities to support multiple security tools and cloud platforms through a unified interface. This multi-functionality allows the system to maintain compatibility with various security tools while presenting a consistent, simplified interface to users, thereby improving adaptability without proportionally increasing operational complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
A method for interworking of a security tool and a cloud platform includes checking whether there is a record of confirming or applying security related to a target identifier when a cloud platform client calls a platform interface module, determining whether to interwork with the security tool when the record of confirming or applying security related to the target identifier is not present, requesting a resource required for running the security tool to the cloud platform when the security tool is invoked, and obtaining the resource from the cloud platform and storing the same.