Dynamic Incident Extraction for Flexible Response Procedures

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing incident response systems are limited in their ability to respond flexibly to various incidents, as they require pre-registered response procedures and lack guidance for manual processes, making them ineffective for unregistered incidents and increasing operational costs and time in identifying incident types and locations within large-scale systems.

Innovation Solution

An incident response assisting device that includes an incident detection information acquisition unit, log data acquisition unit, incident extraction unit, response procedure creation unit, and display unit, which extracts incident information through a series of comparison processes and creates a response procedure based on incident-specific data, allowing for flexible responses to various incidents.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If a manual response process is performed when a response procedure is not registered in the knowledge system, then the system can handle unregistered incidents, but the range of incidents the operation management system can respond to is limited and it cannot respond flexibly to various incidents

Engineering Contradiction:
Improverange of incidents the system can respond toVSAvoidflexibility in responding to various incidents
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The incident extraction unit automatically extracts incident information from incident detection information and log data through comparison processes, enabling the system to self-identify incident types and locations without requiring pre-registered response procedures for every incident type, thus improving both adaptability and ease of operation

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system dynamically changes the content of comparison processes based on results of previously performed comparison processes, allowing flexible adaptation to different incident types and scenarios without requiring pre-defined response procedures for each specific incident

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Measurement precision

If sufficient personnel arrangement and education are provided to rapidly and accurately conduct incident response work, then response accuracy improves, but high cost is required

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveresponse accuracyVSAvoidcost for personnel arrangement and education
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The incident response assisting device acts as an intermediary between incident detection and response execution, automatically extracting incident information and generating response procedures to guide users, thereby maintaining high response accuracy without requiring extensive personnel training or arrangement

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system replaces the mechanical approach of training and arranging sufficient personnel with an automated information extraction and procedure generation system that provides accurate incident identification and response guidance at low cost

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

3Measurement precision

If the incident extraction process uses a series of comparison processes where subsequent comparison content changes based on previous results, then incident identification accuracy improves, but process complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveincident identification accuracyVSAvoidincident extraction process complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The incident extraction process is designed as a dynamic series of comparison processes where the content of subsequent comparisons changes based on results of previous comparisons, allowing the system to adaptively focus on relevant incident characteristics and achieve high identification accuracy while managing complexity through conditional flow

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS11244266B2Incident response assisting device
Publication Date: 2022.02.08 MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORP
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AI summary

The incident response assisting device includes: an incident extraction unit, a response procedure creation unit, and a screen display unit. The incident extraction unit performs an incident extraction process on an alert indicating that an incident has occurred in a monitored object and on log data of the monitored object, to extract incident information. The response procedure creation unit creates an incident response procedure corresponding to the incident on the basis of the incident information and a response procedure template. The screen display unit selects a display range from the incident response procedure in accordance with a progress status of response and displays the display range as a display response procedure.The incident extraction process is composed of a series of comparison processes in which a content of a comparison process to be subsequently performed is changed in accordance with a result of a previously performed comparison process.