Continuous Risk Feedback for Dynamic Enterprise Access Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing enterprise resource access systems provide static authentication once access is granted, failing to consider dynamically changing security conditions, especially in bring your own device (BYOD) scenarios and environments with mobile devices, leading to security vulnerabilities.
Innovation Solution
Implement a system for continuous risk feedback and authorization, continuously monitoring and reevaluating security conditions, providing real-time feedback to users through a continuous risk interface, and allowing dynamic adjustments to access permissions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If static authentication is used to grant access to enterprise resources, then ease of operation is improved, but security is worsened due to inability to detect dynamically changing security conditions
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic authorization by continuously monitoring security conditions and reassessing access permissions in real-time. The system transitions from static authentication to dynamic authorization where access rights are continuously adjusted based on current security posture, device status, and risk factors, ensuring security adapts to changing conditions while maintaining operational flow.
Solution Approach 2:
The system establishes continuous feedback loops where security conditions are monitored, risk assessments are performed, and authorization decisions are continuously updated. The system receives feedback from multiple sources including device compliance status, security event logs, and threat intelligence, then adjusts access permissions accordingly, creating a closed-loop security system that responds to changing conditions.
2Reliability
If continuous monitoring and reevaluation of security conditions is implemented, then security is improved, but device complexity is worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the continuous authorization system into distinct functional modules: security condition monitoring components, risk assessment engines, authorization decision modules, and enforcement mechanisms. Each module performs a specific function in the continuous authorization workflow, making the overall complex system manageable through functional decomposition and independent deployment of security checks.
3Ease of operation
If authentication tokens with fixed lifespan are used, then ease of operation is improved, but adaptability is worsened due to inability to interrupt or adjust access
Solution Approach 1:
The system replaces fixed-lifespan authentication tokens with dynamic authorization permissions that can be continuously adjusted. Access rights are not bound by rigid time intervals but are instead continuously reassessed and modified based on real-time security conditions, allowing the system to adapt access permissions dynamically without being constrained by predetermined token expiration schedules.
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed are various approaches for ensuring application integrity for enterprise resource access. In some examples, risk data for a client device is periodically received from a risk assessment service. The risk data is embedded into integrated data that includes the enterprise resources and the risk data. The integrated data is transmitted to a client device, and the integrated data causes the client device to provide a continuously updated risk user interface element in a user interface that provides the enterprise data.