Exception Remediation Logic Routing for Network Vulnerabilities
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing network remediation procedures often fail to complete within the established timeframe, leading to unnecessary alerts and administrative interactions, which can compromise network security and compliance.
Innovation Solution
A system that identifies potential delays in remediation procedures and generates a remediation exception procedure, allowing for extended timelines and temporary measures to prevent network component removal or restriction of actions until the procedure is completed, thereby avoiding compliance breaches and reducing alert communications.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the original remediation procedure is strictly enforced within the expected timeframe, then compliance standards are maintained, but unnecessary alerts and administrative interactions are triggered when delays are unavoidable
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by generating a remediation exception procedure before the original timeframe expires. This proactive approach allows the system to pre-approve extended timelines and temporary measures, preventing the triggering of unnecessary alerts and administrative interactions when delays occur.
Solution Approach 2:
The remediation exception procedure acts as an intermediary mechanism between the strict compliance requirements and the practical realities of remediation delays. It mediates by providing approved extensions and temporary measures that maintain compliance while avoiding unnecessary alerts.
2Object-generated harmful factors
If the remediation procedure is extended beyond the original timeframe, then unnecessary alerts are avoided, but the risk of compliance breaches increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-applies the preliminary action principle by generating the remediation exception procedure before the original timeframe expires. This ensures that extensions are pre-approved and structured to maintain compliance, rather than risking breaches after the fact.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the time parameter of the remediation procedure by approving extended timelines through the exception procedure. This parameter change is done in a controlled manner that maintains compliance adherence while avoiding unnecessary alerts.
3Reliability
If network components are removed or actions are restricted to ensure compliance, then security is maintained, but continuous operation within acceptable margins is compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies local quality by implementing targeted temporary measures and restrictions only where necessary, rather than broadly removing or restricting all network components. This allows continuous operation within acceptable margins while maintaining security where needed.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses dynamic adjustments by allowing remediation procedures to extend beyond original timeframes with approved exceptions. This enables flexible, real-time adaptations that maintain both security and continuous operation, rather than static rigid enforcement.
Data Source
AI summary
Embodiments of the present invention provide a system for exception remediation logic routing and suppression. In particular, the system may identify a vulnerability of a network component as well as additional information like an associated vulnerability category. Next, an original remediation procedure associated with the vulnerability of the network component is identified, including an expected timeframe for completing the original remediation procedure. A determination is then made regarding an expected timeframe for completing the original remediation and how that expected timeframe will not be met in time. A remediation exception procedure is then generated based on the vulnerability, the vulnerability category, the primary user, or a line of business associated with the primary user. This remediation exception procedure comprises an approval to implement the original remediation procedure outside of the expected timeframe, and may include additional restrictions to the network component.