Cloud Vulnerability Visualization for False Positive Remediation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Cloud-based applications experience security vulnerabilities due to outdated software or unrefreshed cloud-based images, leading to potential cyberattacks and inefficient resource usage in addressing false positives.

Innovation Solution

A system that generates a visual representation of cloud-based applications affected by security vulnerabilities, allowing for the detection of false positives and enabling efficient remediation through a relational structure and interactive user interface.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If cloud-based applications are monitored for security vulnerabilities using traditional methods, then security coverage is provided, but significant power, processing, and network resources are wasted due to false positives and inefficient remediation processes

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesecurity vulnerability detection accuracyVSAvoidpower and processing resources wasted

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSLoss of energy

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the vulnerability assessment process into distinct phases: initial vulnerability identification, false positive detection through visual inspection, and targeted remediation. By dividing the monitoring scope into individual cloud applications displayed as discrete visual elements, the system allows selective attention and resource allocation only to genuine vulnerabilities, eliminating waste on false positives.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The visual representation interface acts as an intermediary between automated vulnerability scanning and human analysis. This intermediary layer presents vulnerability data in a visually intuitive format that enables rapid identification of false positives, serving as a bridge that filters out erroneous alerts before they consume remediation resources.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Reliability

If comprehensive vulnerability scanning is performed across all cloud applications, then security coverage is improved, but the time and resources required for analysis and remediation increase significantly

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesecurity vulnerability detectionVSAvoidtime required for vulnerability remediation

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary visual assessment of vulnerability data before committing to remediation actions. By presenting all vulnerability information in a consolidated visual structure first, the system enables quick preliminary filtering and prioritization, allowing users to identify and dismiss false positives immediately without proceeding through lengthy analysis and remediation workflows.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

Rather than immediately initiating full remediation procedures for all detected vulnerabilities, the system applies partial action by first displaying them in a visual overview. This allows users to perform selective validation, taking remediation action only on confirmed genuine vulnerabilities while ignoring false positives, thus avoiding excessive time investment in unnecessary remediation steps.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #16Partial or excessive action

3Reliability

If traditional vulnerability management processes are used, then security monitoring is maintained, but the complexity of managing and prioritizing vulnerabilities across multiple applications increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesecurity vulnerability monitoringVSAvoidcomplexity of vulnerability management system

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system merges multiple vulnerability data sources and individual application vulnerability statuses into a single unified visual representation. By consolidating vulnerability information from across the entire cloud application portfolio into one coherent visual structure, the system simplifies management and prioritization tasks, allowing users to assess overall security posture and individual application risks simultaneously without navigating complex multi-tool interfaces.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS12566863B2Visualization of security vulnerabilities

Publication Date: 2026.03.03 CAPITAL ONE SERVICES LLC

AI summary

In some implementations, a remediation engine may receive an indication of a security vulnerability. The remediation engine may determine a plurality of cloud-based applications affected by the security vulnerability. The remediation engine may generate a relational structure that organizes the plurality of cloud-based applications. The remediation engine may transmit, to a user device, instructions for a visual representation of the relational structure. The remediation engine may receive, from the user device, an indication of an interaction with the visual representation. The remediation engine may trigger a remediation action in response to the indication of the interaction.