Coordinated Risk Management System for OT IT ST Integration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current risk management approaches in enterprises are fragmented and informal, lacking holistic analysis of complex interactions between operational technology (OT), information technology (IT), and security technology (ST) domains, leading to ineffective cyber security and business risk mitigation due to subjective assessments and inadequate automated processes.
Innovation Solution
A coordinated risk management system that identifies business functions, vulnerabilities, and threats across multiple domains, using automated and adaptive methodologies for real-time analysis and control, integrating situational awareness and domain-specific knowledge to prioritize and refine security and risk control mechanisms.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If sub-domain specific expertise and ad hoc decisions are used for security and risk assessment, then personal experience and guidelines can be applied, but the approach becomes non-holistic and fragmented, unable to consider complex relationships between security and risk concepts systemically
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple sub-domain specific assessments (OT, IT, ST) into a unified enterprise-wide risk management system that holistically analyzes complex relationships between security and risk concepts across all domains simultaneously
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates a universal risk management framework that can assess security and risk concepts across diverse domains (operational technology, information technology, security technology) using a common systematic approach rather than domain-specific fragmented methods
2Reliability
If formal and automated methods are implemented to improve integrity, repeatability, effectiveness, and timeliness of security and business risk analysis, then systematic analysis is achieved, but the complexity of coordinating OT, IT, and ST systems increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the complex enterprise-wide risk management system into coordinated sub-systems for OT, IT, and ST domains, each handling specific assessment tasks while contributing to the overall systematic analysis through standardized interfaces and data exchange protocols
3Loss of information
If enterprise-wide interconnection of OT, IT, and ST domains is implemented to meet business and regulatory demands, then comprehensive risk visibility is achieved, but adverse impacts can propagate from one system to others requiring coordinated response
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback mechanisms that continuously monitor and analyze risk indicators across interconnected OT, IT, and ST domains, enabling early detection of adverse impacts and coordinated response actions to prevent propagation throughout the enterprise-wide system
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AI summary
Real time security, integrity, and reliability postures of operational (OT), information (IT), and security (ST) systems, as well as slower changing security and operational blueprint, policies, processes, and rules governing the enterprise security and business risk management process, dynamically evolve and adapt to domain, context, and situational awareness, as well as the controls implemented across the operational and information systems that are controlled. Embodiments of the invention are systematized and pervasively applied across interconnected, interdependent, and diverse operational, information, and security systems to mitigate system-wide business risk, to improve efficiency and effectiveness of business processes and to enhance security control which conventional perimeter, network, or host based control and protection schemes cannot successfully perform.