Intermediate Platform for Serverless SaaS Security Compliance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Companies face challenges in developing and deploying new applications due to the time-consuming process of building application infrastructure, ensuring compliance with privacy and security policies, and integrating new applications with existing systems, which can be complex and prone to security vulnerabilities.
Innovation Solution
The use of a serverless environment facilitated by an intermediate platform that acts as a mediator between developers, SaaS platforms, and serverless environments, allowing for the development and implementation of applications without managing servers, and ensuring compliance with privacy and security policies.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If companies build their own application infrastructure and manage servers, then they have full control over security and compliance, but the development process becomes time-consuming and complex
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediate platform that mediates between the serverless environment and the SaaS platform. This platform handles security compliance verification, privacy policy enforcement, and integration coordination, allowing companies to benefit from serverless speed without sacrificing security control. The intermediate platform acts as a trusted intermediary that automates compliance checking and security validation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary security and compliance verification through the intermediate platform before applications are deployed to the SaaS platform. By pre-validating security requirements, privacy policies, and compliance standards during the deployment process, the system eliminates time-consuming security checks later, thereby reducing overall development time while maintaining security standards.
2Adaptability or versatility
If companies integrate new applications with existing systems, then they achieve seamless workflow integration, but the integration process becomes complex and prone to security vulnerabilities
Solution Approach 1:
The intermediate platform serves as a mediator between new applications and existing SaaS systems, providing standardized integration interfaces and protocols. It handles authentication, authorization, and data exchange protocols, reducing integration complexity. The platform translates between different system interfaces and maintains security policies, enabling seamless integration without direct complex point-to-point connections.
Solution Approach 2:
The intermediate platform provides universal integration capabilities that work across multiple SaaS platforms and application types. It implements a standardized set of integration protocols and interfaces that can accommodate various integration scenarios, reducing the need for custom integration logic for each new application and thereby reducing overall complexity.
3Productivity
If companies use third-party application providers, then they accelerate application deployment, but they face challenges in ensuring compliance with privacy and security policies
Solution Approach 1:
The intermediate platform implements continuous feedback mechanisms that monitor and verify compliance with privacy and security policies during application deployment and operation. It automatically checks whether third-party applications meet required standards and provides feedback to both the application provider and the company, enabling rapid deployment while maintaining compliance through automated verification loops.
Solution Approach 2:
The system applies preliminary anti-action by pre-screening third-party applications for compliance with privacy and security policies before they are deployed. The intermediate platform validates application security requirements, privacy policy adherence, and compliance standards in advance, blocking non-compliant applications from deployment and thereby ensuring policy compliance while maintaining fast deployment speeds for approved applications.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems, methods, and computer program products are disclosed perform data access operations in association with a multi-tenant SaaS application within a Multi-tenant SaaS Platform. Code for a multi-tenant SaaS application includes a call to a token associated with retrieving tenant-specific data. A first request is received for first data access using a first token associated with a first tenant associated with a first storage location, the first request lacking an identification of the first storage location. Tenant-specific data associated with the first tenant is retrieved and provided to the multi-tenant SaaS application. A second request is received for second data access using a second token associated with a second storage location associated with a second tenant. The second token is mapped to the second storage location. The second tenant tenant-specific data is retrieved from the second storage location and provided to the multi-tenant SaaS application.