Security Inspection Activity History Correlation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Vulnerability inspections can be efficiently automated, but penetration tests and similar security inspections often rely on individual skills and tend to be time-consuming, with existing solutions like PTL 1 not addressing the fundamental efficiency of skill-dependent work.
Innovation Solution
A management apparatus and method that receive and analyze activity histories from multiple inspection apparatuses, specify conforming activity histories based on predetermined correlation conditions, and generate information related to these conforming activity histories to enhance the efficiency of security inspections.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If penetration tests are performed manually by individual inspectors, then inspection quality and depth can be maintained, but inspection time and efficiency deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates activity history information that copies and standardizes successful inspection patterns from experienced inspectors. This copied knowledge is stored and reused to guide future inspections, allowing less experienced inspectors to achieve similar quality results without requiring extensive individual training and experience accumulation
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables self-service by automatically analyzing activity histories and generating standardized inspection guides without requiring constant expert intervention. The accumulated knowledge serves itself by automatically improving future inspection processes through pattern recognition and recommendation generation
2Productivity
If more malware analysts are hired to improve efficiency, then inspection capacity increases, but cost and management complexity worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The system allows inspection knowledge to serve itself by automatically analyzing activity histories and generating standardized procedures. This self-improving mechanism eliminates the need to continuously hire and train new analysts, as the system automatically captures and applies lessons learned from existing inspections
Solution Approach 2:
The activity history information acts as an intermediary that transfers knowledge between inspectors and inspection processes. Instead of relying on direct human-to-human knowledge transfer through hiring and training, the system uses standardized activity histories as a mediator to propagate best practices across the organization
3Speed
If vulnerability inspections are automated using tools, then inspection speed improves, but detection accuracy for complex defects worsens
Solution Approach 1:
The patent copies the decision-making patterns and analysis approaches of expert human inspectors into standardized activity history information. This allows automated systems to leverage human expertise without requiring constant human intervention, combining the speed of automation with the judgment of experienced inspectors
Solution Approach 2:
The system merges automated inspection tools with standardized human expert knowledge captured in activity histories. This combination allows the system to perform rapid automated scanning while applying human-derived judgment criteria to identify and prioritize complex security defects that pure automation might miss
Data Source
AI summary
In order to efficiently perform security inspection, an inspection support apparatus includes a reception processing section configured to receive information related to a plurality of activity histories for security inspections performed by a plurality of inspection apparatuses, a specifying section configured to specify a conforming activity history meeting a predetermined correlation condition, from the plurality of activity histories, and a generating section configured to generate information related to the conforming activity history.