Contextual Data Security via Virtual Group Clustering
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Solution Overview
Problem
Modern computing ecosystems with 'always on' broadband connections face vulnerabilities due to the lack of contextual awareness in existing security solutions, which struggle to manage data transfers across diverse social connections and virtual organizations, leading to potential security breaches.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method that enumerates social connections, builds permissible data transfer profiles for virtual groups, and manages data transfers based on these profiles using machine learning to dynamically cluster users and apply context-specific security policies, allowing for automated detection and management of data transfer exceptions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If traditional security solutions are used with always on broadband connections, then devices remain connected and accessible, but security vulnerabilities increase due to lack of contextual awareness
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by implementing context-specific security policies for different virtual groups and social connections. Instead of uniform security controls, the system dynamically adjusts security parameters based on the specific context of each data transfer attempt, including the user's social connections, virtual group memberships, and relationship contexts, thereby maintaining connectivity while addressing security vulnerabilities through localized, contextualized protection.
Solution Approach 2:
The system employs dynamics by continuously monitoring and adapting security policies in real-time based on changing contextual factors. The security controls are not static but dynamically adjust according to the user's current virtual group affiliations, social connections, and the specific data transfer context, allowing the system to respond adaptively to emerging security threats while maintaining operational flexibility.
2Measurement precision
If manual security configuration is implemented for each organizational context, then security control precision improves, but system complexity and configuration time increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements self-service by automatically discovering virtual groups, enumerating social connections, and generating contextual security policies without requiring manual configuration. The system autonomously monitors user activities, identifies virtual group memberships, and dynamically creates appropriate security controls based on the detected contextual relationships, thereby achieving precise security control while eliminating the complexity of manual setup and maintenance.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-establishing the framework for contextual security policy generation and virtual group detection before actual data transfer operations occur. The system proactively builds the social connection graph, identifies virtual groups, and prepares contextual security policies in advance, so that when data transfer attempts occur, the appropriate security controls are already in place and can be applied immediately without complex real-time configuration.
3Reliability
If contextual awareness is added to security solutions, then security effectiveness improves, but computational requirements and system resources increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies segmentation by dividing the security monitoring task into distinct modular components: virtual group detection, social connection enumeration, contextual relationship analysis, and policy generation. Each component operates independently and can be processed separately, allowing the system to manage computational resources efficiently by handling different aspects of contextual analysis in discrete steps rather than as a monolithic computationally intensive process.
Data Source
AI summary
There is disclosed in one example a computing apparatus, including: a hardware platform including a processor and a memory; a network interface; a userspace application store including a plurality of userspace applications, wherein at least some of the userspace applications are programmed to communicate via the network interface; and instructions encoded within the memory to: enumerate social connections of a user via the userspace applications; assign the social connections to virtual groups according, at least in part, to correlated connection services; assign data transfer policies to the virtual groups; detect an attempted data transfer to a social connection; and enforce the data transfer policy for a virtual group of the social connection of the attempted data transfer.