AI IAM Role Analysis for Excessive Privilege Remediation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing computing systems face challenges in efficiently managing and verifying access control policies due to siloed operations, rapid infrastructure changes, and the lack of comprehensive and continuous checks, leading to misconfigurations that compromise security and performance.
Innovation Solution
A method and system utilizing AI/ML models to generate job descriptions, Role Potential Excessive Service Action Lists (RPESAL) and Role Actual Excessive Service Action Lists (RAESAL), enabling the identification and remediation of excessive privileges in Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles and policies.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If manual methods are used to verify access control policies, then implementation simplicity is maintained, but verification completeness and security reliability deteriorate due to siloed operations and lack of continuous checks
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges previously siloed access control verification operations into a unified automated system that continuously monitors and verifies IAM roles and policies across the entire infrastructure, eliminating gaps in coverage while maintaining ease of implementation through integration
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual mechanical verification processes with automated AI/ML-based systems that continuously analyze access control configurations, detect excessive privileges, and remediate issues without human intervention, significantly improving verification completeness and reliability
2Reliability
If comprehensive and continuous access control checks are implemented, then security reliability improves, but system complexity and computational resource requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements self-service mechanisms where the automated system continuously self-monitors and self-remediates access control issues without requiring complex external management infrastructure, maintaining high security reliability while managing system complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses AI/ML models to dynamically adjust verification parameters and prioritize checks based on risk levels and infrastructure changes, enabling comprehensive continuous monitoring without proportionally increasing system complexity and computational resources
3Measurement precision
If frequent access control policy verification is performed, then detection precision of misconfigurations improves, but productivity of infrastructure changes deteriorates due to increased overhead
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements periodic verification triggered by infrastructure events such as IAM role creation or policy changes, rather than continuous verification at fixed intervals, maintaining high detection precision for misconfigurations while minimizing overhead on infrastructure change productivity
Solution Approach 2:
The patent performs preliminary verification of access control policies during the infrastructure provisioning process itself, detecting and remediating misconfigurations before they impact production systems, thereby maintaining detection precision without slowing down subsequent infrastructure changes
Data Source
AI summary
A method is described. The method comprises: extracting one or more contents related to an organization from one or more data sources based on one or more job role names and one or more contextual inputs; determining, using an artificial intelligence engine, at least one of an organizational structure, one or more roles, one or more responsibilities, one or more hierarchical relationships, one or more access levels, one or more service actions, and one or more departments of the organization from the one or more contents; and generating, using the artificial intelligence engine, one or more job descriptions based on at least one of the organizational structure, the one or more roles, the one or more responsibilities, the one or more hierarchical relationships, the one or more access levels, the one or more service actions, and the one or more departments.