Enterprise Gateway for Secure Collaboration Data
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Solution Overview
Problem
Collaboration tools like social networks and communication services pose a risk to organizational confidentiality due to potential data exposure and changing privacy agreements, making them unsuitable for secure communication and collaboration.
Innovation Solution
A system that augments computer applications with encryption services to securely transmit and store organization-confidential information by encrypting data payloads using a proprietary key, ensuring data integrity and access control within the organization's network.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If organizations use public collaboration services over the Internet, then communication and collaboration capabilities are improved, but security and confidentiality of organizational information deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an enterprise gateway as an intermediary component that sits between the organization's internal systems and external collaboration services. This gateway acts as a security broker that mediates all communications, enforcing security policies, filtering content, and controlling access while allowing collaboration functionality to proceed. The gateway protects organizational information by being the sole point of contact with external services, preventing direct exposure of internal systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the collaboration architecture into distinct components: internal organization systems, the enterprise gateway security layer, and external collaboration services. This segmentation allows each component to operate with appropriate security measures - internal systems remain protected behind the gateway, while external services can function with their standard security models. The segmentation enables controlled interaction without compromising overall security.
2Reliability
If organizations block access to collaboration services to protect confidentiality, then information security is improved, but communication and collaboration effectiveness deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
Rather than blocking access entirely, the enterprise gateway serves as a permissive intermediary that allows collaboration traffic to flow while actively monitoring and controlling it. The gateway enables productive collaboration by maintaining open communication channels between organizational members and external services, while simultaneously enforcing security policies to protect confidential information. This approach preserves collaboration effectiveness without sacrificing security.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the security parameter from binary block/allow to a spectrum of controlled access. The enterprise gateway dynamically adjusts security parameters based on content analysis, user roles, and policy requirements. Instead of uniformly blocking all collaboration services, the system selectively applies security measures to specific communications, allowing productive collaboration to proceed while protecting sensitive information through parameter-based control.
3Ease of operation
If organizations allow use of collaboration services, then employee communication flexibility is improved, but exposure to privacy agreement changes and data compromise increases
Solution Approach 1:
The enterprise gateway implements preliminary anti-action by pre-establishing security controls and policies before data exposure risks materialize. The gateway proactively filters, encrypts, and protects communications before they reach external services, preventing potential data compromise rather than reacting to it. This preliminary security measures counteracts the harmful effects of privacy agreement changes and data exposure risks inherent in using public collaboration services.
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AI summary
Various embodiments, in the form of at least one of systems, methods, and software, are provided that include security solutions for use of collaboration services. Some embodiments include encrypting data to be sent to and stored by a collaboration service. These and other embodiments include capturing, within a computer application used to post data to a collaboration service, data to be sent to the collaboration service, encrypting the captured data, and returning the data in an encrypted form to the computer application for posting to the collaboration service.