Cybersecurity Alert Remediation APIs With Subscriber-Defined Safeguards
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Solution Overview
Problem
The increasing complexity and volume of cybersecurity threats in cloud-based services pose challenges for security operations services in efficiently detecting and responding to threats, leading to potential inefficiencies and delays in threat mitigation.
Innovation Solution
A cybersecurity event detection and response system that identifies threats, generates automated remediation actions, assesses them against subscriber criteria, constructs API requests, and executes them to mitigate threats, including actions like terminating network connections, disabling user accounts, and suspending cloud environments.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If security operations services manually monitor and respond to cybersecurity threats, then response accuracy can be maintained, but response time and efficiency deteriorate as threat volume increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-configures remediation actions and criteria before threats occur. When a threat is detected, the system automatically matches it against pre-defined criteria and executes predetermined remediation actions, eliminating the need for manual analysis and response planning during active incidents.
Solution Approach 2:
The cybersecurity system performs self-service by automatically detecting threats, assessing them against subscriber criteria, constructing API requests, and executing remediation actions without human intervention. The system serves itself by maintaining automated workflows that continuously monitor and respond to security events.
2Productivity
If automated remediation actions are executed without assessment, then response speed improves, but reliability and security worsen due to potential false positives and unauthorized changes
Solution Approach 1:
The system incorporates feedback loops where remediation actions are first assessed against subscriber-defined criteria before execution. The assessment phase provides feedback on whether the detected threat warrants the proposed remediation, allowing the system to verify action appropriateness while maintaining automated speed.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces an intermediary assessment layer between threat detection and remediation execution. This intermediary phase constructs and validates API requests against subscriber criteria, acting as a mediator that ensures reliability without significantly delaying the automated response process.
3Productivity
If security services scale to handle increased threat volumes, then coverage improves, but system complexity and operational overhead worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements universal, standardized workflows that handle multiple threat types through common processes. By creating multi-functional assessment and remediation frameworks that work across different threat vectors, the system scales capacity without proportionally increasing operational complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system manages complexity by parameterizing security policies and criteria that can be adjusted without changing underlying system architecture. Subscriber-defined criteria and configurable parameters allow the system to adapt to varying threat landscapes while maintaining consistent operational processes.
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AI summary
A system and method for accelerating a threat mitigation of malicious cybersecurity activity includes: identifying, via one or more processors, a cybersecurity event associated with a third-party application or a third-party service of a subscriber; generating, via the one or more processors, a service-proposed remediation action for the cybersecurity event based on the identifying of the cybersecurity event; automatically assessing, via the one or more processors, the service-proposed remediation action against automated remediation criteria of the subscriber based on the generation of the service-proposed remediation action; automatically constructing, via the one or more processors, a remediation action application programming interface (API) request for the service-proposed remediation action based on the service-proposed remediation action satisfying the automated remediation criteria of the subscriber; and automatically executing, via the one or more processors, the remediation action API request to remediation or mitigate a suspected cybersecurity threat associated with the cybersecurity event.