Honeypot Adaptive Security System for Over-Privileged Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Mobile telecommunication devices face challenges in preventing pre-loaded partner or third-party applications from gaining over-privileged access to confidential client or network data, which can compromise user integrity and service provider security.
Innovation Solution
The Honeypot Adaptive Security (HAS) system monitors and analyzes client data to detect over-privileged access by pre-loaded partner or third-party applications, generating a policy solution to mitigate such access and alerting relevant parties, while also identifying affected devices and deploying corrective measures.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If access permissions are granted to software applications to facilitate operation, then application functionality is improved, but security risk increases as applications may inadvertently or maliciously access confidential client or network data
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary security monitoring system that sits between the software applications and the confidential data. This intermediary continuously monitors application behavior, compares it against established baselines, and intervenes when suspicious access patterns are detected, thereby enabling applications to function while preventing unauthorized data access
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements continuous feedback loops where application behavior is constantly monitored and fed back to the security system. When deviations from normal behavior are detected, the system responds by adjusting access permissions or blocking operations, creating a dynamic security mechanism that adapts to application behavior while maintaining data protection
2Reliability
If monitoring of all client data is performed to detect over-privileged access, then security detection capability is improved, but system complexity and processing overhead increase
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of monitoring all client data uniformly, the system applies partial monitoring by focusing only on data types and access patterns that are most likely to indicate security threats. The monitoring intensity is adjusted based on risk assessment, applying excessive scrutiny to high-risk operations while using lighter monitoring for low-risk operations, thereby reducing overall system complexity while maintaining detection effectiveness
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AI summary
A Honeypot Adaptive Security (HAS) system is described that determines whether a pre-loaded partner or third-party (PP-TP) application executed on a client device has gained over-privileged access to confidential client or network (CCN) data, or over-privileged use of client account features or information provided by a telecommunications service provider. The HAS system is configured to retrieve client data associated with a PP-TP application executed on the client device, retrieve policy rules associated with the PP-TP application, generate a PP-TP application data model to determine a probability of the PP-TP application gaining over-privileged access to CCN data or over-privileged use of client account features on a client device. Responsive to the determined probability, the HAS system is configured to deploy a solution data package to the client device that resolves the instance of over-privileged access or over-privileged use.