Cybersecurity Vulnerability Solution Management System
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current methods for addressing cybersecurity vulnerabilities in cloud-based IT infrastructure are tedious, time-consuming, and inefficient, as they involve manually searching for vendor solutions, evaluating risks, and determining the impact of each solution on other vulnerabilities.
Innovation Solution
A solution management system that compiles, analyzes, and scores vendor solutions to address specific vulnerabilities, generating a solution graph that illustrates relationships and supersedence, enabling efficient selection and implementation of the most effective solutions across a client network and devices.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If manual methods are used to search for vendor solutions and evaluate risks, then thorough analysis can be performed, but the process becomes tedious and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an automated solution management system that acts as an intermediary between vulnerability data and vendor solutions. This system automatically searches for, compiles, and analyzes vendor solutions, eliminating manual effort while maintaining thorough analysis through systematic evaluation of multiple solutions and their relationships.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual mechanical processes (human searching, evaluating, and analyzing) with automated computational systems. The system uses algorithms to search for vendor solutions, evaluate their effectiveness, determine relationships between solutions, and generate prioritized recommendations, thereby reducing time loss while preserving analysis quality.
2Reliability
If comprehensive vendor solution analysis is performed to determine the most effective solutions, then solution effectiveness is improved, but the complexity of the process increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the complex analysis process into distinct automated components: searching for vendor solutions, compiling solution data, analyzing solution relationships, determining effectiveness, and generating recommendations. This segmentation manages complexity by breaking down the overall process while maintaining comprehensive analysis through systematic execution of each segment.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transforms the complex qualitative assessment of solution effectiveness into quantifiable parameters and metrics. By establishing standardized criteria for evaluating vendor solutions and their relationships, the system maintains high solution effectiveness while reducing perceived complexity through objective measurement and automated comparison.
3Reliability
If multiple vendor solutions are evaluated to address vulnerabilities, then the quality of vulnerability remediation is improved, but the cost and time required increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary automated evaluation of multiple vendor solutions before manual selection. The system pre-searches for available solutions, pre-analyzes their relationships and effectiveness, and pre-ranks them based on established criteria. This preliminary action maintains high remediation quality by considering multiple options while significantly reducing the time and effort required for final selection.
4Measurement precision
If detailed analysis of solution relationships and supersedence is performed, then the accuracy of solution selection is improved, but the computational resources required increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies partial analysis by focusing computational resources on the most relevant solution relationships and supersedence determinations. Rather than exhaustively analyzing every possible relationship between all vendor solutions, the system identifies and analyzes only the critical relationships that impact solution selection accuracy, thereby maintaining high accuracy while reducing computational resource usage.
Data Source
AI summary
Solution management systems and methods are presently disclosed that enable receiving, compiling, and analyzing vendor solutions, determining the vendor solutions that address a target vulnerability of a client network and/or client devices, determining additional vulnerabilities of the client network and/or client devices that the vendor solutions address, and selecting a vendor solution to remediate the target vulnerability. The presently disclosed systems and methods also enable scoring, risk evaluation, and additional metrics to facilitate determining the vendor solution(s) that have the largest impact and/or benefit to the various vulnerabilities of the client network and/or client devices.