Dynamic Digital Threat Mitigation via Ensemble Machine Learning

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current digital fraud and abuse detection technologies fail to accurately and timely detect malicious digital activities over the web, and lack the ability to adapt to new threats, leading to insufficient protection against evolving digital threats.

Innovation Solution

An advanced technology platform employing ensemble machine learning models to ingest and analyze vast digital events, providing real-time digital threat scores and dynamically generating mitigation protocols to detect and respond to fraudulent activities, with a digital threat mitigation engine that automatically configures new protocols to address unclassified threats.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If existing digital fraud detection technologies are used, then some detection capability is provided, but detection accuracy and real-time response are insufficient

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedetection accuracyVSAvoidresponse time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system dynamically adjusts detection parameters and thresholds based on real-time threat patterns and historical data, allowing the detection model to adapt and improve accuracy while maintaining real-time performance through automated reconfiguration

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary analysis and pre-processing of digital events before full detection, using ensemble models to pre-identify potential threats and prioritize them for detailed analysis, thereby improving both accuracy and response time

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Adaptability or versatility

If existing detection technologies are deployed, then current threats are detected, but new and evolving digital threats cannot be detected

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveadaptability to new threatsVSAvoiddetection reliability
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system incorporates feedback loops where detection results, false positives, and new threat patterns are continuously fed back into the ensemble machine learning models, enabling automatic retraining and adaptation to new threats while maintaining reliable detection through validated feedback mechanisms

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The digital threat mitigation engine automatically configures new detection protocols and updates models without human intervention, using self-learning algorithms to adapt to new threat types while maintaining system reliability through automated validation processes

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

3Productivity

If manual detection and response processes are used, then thorough analysis is possible, but real-time mitigation cannot be achieved

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemitigation speedVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically generates and implements mitigation protocols without human intervention, with the digital threat mitigation engine self-configuring response actions based on detected threats, thereby achieving real-time mitigation while managing complexity through automation

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The ensemble machine learning models serve as intermediaries between raw digital events and mitigation actions, automatically translating complex event data into actionable insights and automated responses, enabling real-time productivity while managing system complexity through layered processing

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS10643216B2System and methods for dynamic digital threat mitigation
Publication Date: 2020.05.05 SIFT SCIENCE INC
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AI summary

Systems and methods include: receiving digital event type data that define attributes of a digital event type; receiving digital fraud policy that defines a plurality of digital processing protocols; transmitting via a network the digital event data and the digital fraud policy to a remote digital fraud mitigation platform; using the digital event data to configure a first computing node comprising an events data application program interface or an events data computing server to detect digital events that classify as the digital event type; using digital fraud policy to configure a second computing node comprising a decisioning API or a decisioning computing server to automatically evaluate and automatically select one digital event processing outcome of a plurality of digital event processing outcomes that indicates a disposal of the digital events classified as the digital event type; and implementing a digital threat mitigation application process flow that evaluates digital event data.