Control Plane Authentication for Trusted Metric Data
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Solution Overview
Problem
Computer systems face challenges in ensuring the security and integrity of communicated data, particularly metric data, which can be compromised by unauthorized access or tampering, leading to operational inefficiencies and incorrect billing.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented framework that includes an enhanced registration process for computer-implemented resources, where metric data is authenticated and augmented with trusted identifiers before transmission, ensuring the data's integrity and authenticity through the control plane.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If data is communicated without additional security measures, then communication speed is maintained, but data security and integrity are compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by generating and attaching trusted identifiers to metric data before the data leaves the computer-implemented resource. The control plane service authenticates and augments the data with these identifiers in advance, so that when the data is received, its integrity can be immediately verified without adding complex validation processes at the receiving end.
Solution Approach 2:
The control plane service acts as an intermediary between the computer-implemented resource and the receiving system. It receives metric data, authenticates it, augments it with trusted identifiers, and forwards it to the destination. This intermediary approach centralizes security processing without requiring complex security mechanisms at both ends of the communication.
2Reliability
If trusted identifiers are augmented to metric data, then data authenticity is improved, but data processing time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The trusted identifiers are generated and attached to metric data before transmission occurs. By performing this authentication and augmentation process in advance at the source or through the control plane intermediary, the receiving system can process the data more efficiently without having to perform complex verification operations, thus reducing overall processing time loss.
3Reliability
If authentication processes are implemented, then unauthorized access is prevented, but system operational efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The control plane service serves as an intermediary that handles authentication and augmentation of metric data. By centralizing these security functions in a dedicated service rather than implementing them at every data processing point, the system maintains security while minimizing the impact on operational efficiency of core computing resources.
Solution Approach 2:
Authentication and augmentation are performed in advance before metric data enters the main processing pipeline. This preliminary security processing ensures that unauthorized data is filtered out before it can impact system operations, maintaining both security and efficiency.
Data Source
AI summary
Described techniques and systems can obtain a request to process metric data based on observation of a computer-implemented resource. The request can be authenticated. Based at least on authenticating the request, the request can be augmented to include data linked to the computer-implemented resource. The metric data can be processed based on the augmented request, the processing can include disseminating the metric data.