Geo-mapping Security Events by Location
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Solution Overview
Problem
Modern security tools, such as firewalls and security event management systems, become overly complex due to the increasing number of policies and rules required to manage diverse security threats across multiple geographic locations, making it difficult for administrators to effectively diagnose and address security events and implement countermeasures.
Innovation Solution
A geo-mapping system that identifies security events and visualizes them on a graphical user interface, allowing users to interact with a geographical map to understand the source and target of security incidents, facilitating better management and response by associating security events with geographic locations and asset groupings.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If security tools deploy more policies and rules to manage diverse security threats, then security coverage and protection capability are improved, but system complexity and difficulty of management increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments security event data by geographic location, presenting events from different regions separately. This allows administrators to divide complex security management into manageable geographic sections, reducing the perceived complexity while maintaining comprehensive security coverage across all locations.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent adds a geographic dimension to security event presentation, transforming flat security logs into spatially organized visualizations. By mapping security events to their geographic origins, the system provides a new dimension for analyzing and managing security threats, making complex multi-location security oversight more intuitive.
2Reliability
If security tools are customized to deal with specific threats for particular devices and systems, then security effectiveness is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments security events by device type and location, allowing administrators to apply customized security policies to specific device categories while maintaining a unified management interface. This enables tailored security effectiveness for different devices without requiring separate management systems for each.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal geographic mapping interface that can display and manage security events from multiple device types and locations through a single system. This multi-functional platform maintains ease of operation while supporting customized security measures for diverse devices and threats.
3Reliability
If security tools monitor multiple geographic locations, then security coverage is improved, but difficulty of diagnosing and addressing security events increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transforms multi-location security monitoring by adding geographic visualization, allowing administrators to see security events plotted on a map by location. This spatial dimension makes it easy to identify and diagnose security issues across multiple geographic areas without increasing diagnostic difficulty.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses color-coded indicators to represent different security event types and severity levels on the geographic map. This visual encoding allows administrators to quickly diagnose security issues by color patterns and geographic distribution, significantly reducing the difficulty of detecting and measuring security events across multiple locations.
Data Source
AI summary
A particular security event is identified that has been detected as targeting a particular computing device included in a particular computing system. A particular grouping of assets in a plurality of asset groupings within the particular computing system is identified as including the particular computing device. A source of the particular security event is also identified and at least one of a geographic location and a grouping of assets in the plurality of asset groupings is associated with the identified source. Data is generated that is adapted to cause a presentation of a graphical representation of the particular security event on a display device, the graphical representation including a first graphical element representing the particular computing device as included in the particular grouping of assets and a second graphical element representing the source associated with the at least one of a geographic location and a grouping of assets.