Cyber Intelligence Clearinghouse for Threat Correlation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing cybersecurity tools often operate in isolation, leading to redundant activities and contradictory results due to their independent development, resulting in inefficiencies in intelligence gathering and threat management.

Innovation Solution

A cyber intelligence clearinghouse (CIC) that integrates, shares, and compares information from multiple sources, utilizing a fidelity engine to score and analyze intelligence data, providing a centralized platform for threat identification and proactive measures.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If multiple intelligence gathering tools are used separately, then each tool can perform its specialized detection function, but the information becomes isolated and redundant activities occur

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedetection capabilityVSAvoidinformation isolation
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges multiple independent intelligence gathering tools into a unified platform that consolidates detection capabilities while eliminating information silos. The system integrates feeds from various sources including threat intelligence platforms, vulnerability management systems, and security information and event management tools into a single correlated view, thereby maintaining specialized detection functions while preventing information isolation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The unified intelligence platform performs multiple functions simultaneously: it aggregates data from diverse sources, correlates information across different tool outputs, manages vulnerabilities, and provides threat intelligence. This multi-functional approach allows the system to maintain the specialized capabilities of individual tools while adding integration and correlation functions that eliminate redundancy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Adaptability or versatility

If multiple independent tools are deployed, then comprehensive coverage is achieved, but contradictory results and redundant activities increase

Engineering Contradiction:
ImprovecoverageVSAvoidoperational efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements feedback mechanisms where detection results from one tool inform and adjust the operation of other tools. Correlated information flows back through the platform to refine detection parameters, reduce false positives, and eliminate redundant scanning activities. This feedback loop maintains comprehensive coverage while improving operational efficiency by preventing contradictory results.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The patent creates a composite intelligence system that combines multiple tool outputs into a unified correlation engine. Rather than treating tool results as separate entities, the system integrates them into a composite view where contradictions are resolved through correlation algorithms, maintaining comprehensive coverage while eliminating redundant activities through unified analysis.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #40Composite materials

3Ease of manufacture

If tools operate independently, then each tool maintains its specialized function, but overall intelligence gathering effectiveness decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetool specializationVSAvoidintelligence effectiveness
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system maintains segmentation of specialized detection functions within individual tools while adding a higher-level integration layer. Each tool continues to operate with its specialized capabilities intact, but the unified platform segments and organizes their outputs into correlated intelligence, thereby preserving tool specialization while enhancing overall effectiveness through structured integration.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS9680857B1Cyber intelligence clearinghouse
Publication Date: 2017.06.13 UNITED SERVICES AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION (USAA)
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AI summary

Systems, methods, and computer-readable and executable instructions are provided for providing a cyber intelligence clearinghouse (CIC). Providing a CIC can include generating analysis data from intelligence information collected from a number of sources. In addition, providing a CIC can include calculating a number of fidelity scores from the analysis data, wherein the number of fidelity scores represent a trustworthiness of the number of sources. In addition, providing a CIC can include determining a number of events to block based on the number of fidelity scores. Furthermore, providing a CIC can include providing feedback data to the number of sources based on the number of fidelity scores and the number of events to block.