Containerized Edge Security Framework for Transparent Encryption
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Solution Overview
Problem
Distributed systems face security threats due to malicious communications that compromise endpoint devices and services, necessitating improved security frameworks for encryption and traffic screening.
Innovation Solution
A security framework that transparently encrypts data between network devices, screens traffic using whitelists, and drops untrusted communications, utilizing virtual media access control addresses and hashes to manage containerized applications in an overlay network.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If encryption and traffic screening are implemented in distributed systems, then security against malicious communications is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a security framework that acts as an intermediary layer between network devices and applications. This framework handles encryption and traffic screening centrally, allowing individual devices to maintain simplicity while gaining enhanced security. The framework mediates communications by validating hashes and managing encryption keys without requiring complex modifications to endpoint devices.
Solution Approach 2:
The security framework provides multi-functional capabilities including encryption, decryption, traffic screening, and hash validation through a unified system. This universal approach consolidates multiple security functions into a single framework, reducing the complexity that would otherwise arise from implementing separate security mechanisms for each function.
2Reliability
If transparent encryption is implemented between network devices, then data security is improved, but performance of computer-implemented services may be impacted
Solution Approach 1:
The encryption and decryption operations are performed automatically by the security framework without requiring manual intervention or explicit handling by application services. The framework self-manages the encryption process, validating hashes and managing keys in the background, which minimizes the performance impact by avoiding application-level processing overhead.
Solution Approach 2:
The framework performs preliminary hash validation and encryption key management before data transmission occurs. By pre-validating communication credentials and establishing encryption parameters in advance, the system avoids performance bottlenecks during actual data transfer, as the heavy computational tasks are completed beforehand.
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AI summary
Methods and systems for managing operation of endpoint devices are disclosed. The operation of the endpoint devices may be managed using a security framework. The security framework may be used to transparently encrypt and decrypt application data transmitted via a network without requiring the applications to participate in the encryption and decryption. Additionally, the security framework may facilitate screening of network traffic for malicious traffic. The traffic may be screened using information inserted into reserved fields of control information from network data units. The reserved fields may be used to store data based on network information for originating entities.