Disabling Auto-Executable Instructions in Network Messages
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing storage systems face challenges in extending the endurance of flash media, particularly in preventing malicious auto-executable instructions from being injected into messages, which can compromise data integrity and security.
Innovation Solution
A method is implemented where a message received at a server is processed by disabling auto-executable instructions using a security bean within an IOC framework, ensuring that only authorized instructions are executed, thereby enhancing the security and endurance of flash media.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Speed
If flash media is used for high-speed storage, then storage performance is improved, but the media is more susceptible to malicious instruction injection and data integrity compromise
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary security checks by serializing messages and analyzing them against security beans before execution. This preliminary action identifies and disables potentially malicious instructions prior to their harmful effects, allowing the system to maintain high storage performance while preventing instruction injection attacks.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary security layer between the flash media and the execution environment. This intermediary component (security bean) mediates by analyzing serialized messages and filtering out malicious instructions, thereby protecting the flash media from direct exposure to harmful code while maintaining efficient data access.
2Reliability
If message serialization and security analysis are performed, then data integrity is improved, but processing time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The security analysis is applied locally to specific critical fields and instructions within the serialized message rather than the entire message structure. This localized approach maintains data integrity for security-critical components while minimizing processing time by skipping unnecessary security checks on safe fields.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the parameter of message processing by transforming messages into a serialized format that can be efficiently analyzed. This parameter change enables rapid security validation through structured data representation, reducing the time required to analyze message content while maintaining comprehensive security coverage.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If executable instructions are disabled from network messages, then security is improved, but functionality requiring such instructions may be compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts and separates executable instructions from network messages before processing. By taking out the instruction execution capability from the message handling process, the system maintains security by preventing unauthorized instructions while preserving the ability to process legitimate data through alternative safe mechanisms.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of allowing instructions to execute and then checking for security violations, the system inverts the approach by disabling instruction execution capability first and then processing only safe, validated data. This inversion ensures security is built-in rather than added as an afterthought, maintaining functionality through secure-by-design architecture.
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AI summary
One or more aspects of the present disclosure relate to disabling executable instructions from a network message. In embodiments, a message can be received at a server. In addition, one or more executable instructions can be disabled from the message. Further, the message with the disabled one or more executable instructions can be processed.