Connected Asset Breach Detection Through Location and Asset Profiling
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions
Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional systems struggle to timely detect and minimize digital security breaches of connected assets, leading to potential damage from unauthorized manipulations.
Innovation Solution
A digital security breach detection system that analyzes transactions based on pre-authorization of devices, location proximity, and asset profiles to identify unauthorized manipulations, and takes actions such as canceling or rolling back transactions, generating insurance claims, and notifying authorized devices.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional security systems are used to detect digital security breaches, then the system structure is simple, but the detection timeliness is slow and damage cannot be minimized
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-authorizing devices and establishing location thresholds before breaches occur. The asset profiler creates baseline profiles of normal asset operations and authorized users in advance, enabling the system to quickly compare incoming transactions against these pre-established criteria for immediate detection of unauthorized manipulations
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary asset profiler that acts as a mediator between the asset and the breach detection system. This intermediary component analyzes sensor data from multiple sources (telematics devices, mobile devices, sensors) and translates it into actionable security decisions, resolving the contradiction by adding functional complexity without requiring complete system redesign
2Ease of operation
If remote accessibility is enabled for connected assets, then ease of operation is improved, but exposure to digital security breaches increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies local quality by implementing location-based access control. Instead of uniformly allowing or blocking all remote access, the system dynamically evaluates the geographic location of each access request against pre-established location thresholds for that specific asset. This allows legitimate remote operations from authorized locations while blocking unauthorized access from other locations, maintaining ease of operation where safe and preventing breaches where risky
3Measurement precision
If comprehensive sensor data collection is implemented for asset profiling, then measurement precision is improved, but loss of energy increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies partial action by selectively collecting sensor data based on what is necessary for security detection. Rather than continuously monitoring all possible parameters, the system collects data from sensors, telematics devices, and mobile devices only when needed for creating or updating asset profiles and detecting breaches. This reduces energy consumption while maintaining sufficient measurement precision for security purposes
Solution Approach 2:
The asset profiler implements periodic action by collecting and analyzing sensor data at intervals rather than continuously. The system periodically updates asset profiles with new sensor data and compares incoming transactions against these profiles, reducing energy consumption from constant monitoring while maintaining accurate security detection through regular sampling of asset operations
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods are provided for detecting unauthorized manipulations of assets. A digital security breach detection system requests and receives an insurance policy from an insurance system for an asset. The digital security breach detection system further analyzes transactions received by the asset from various devices to determine whether the transactions are unauthorized manipulations. In response to detecting an unauthorized manipulation, the digital security breach detection system generates notifications to pre-authorized devices associated with the asset. Additionally, the digital security breach detection system generates claims relating to the unauthorized manipulation under the insurance policy for the asset.