Live Penetration Testing Feed for Real-Time Vulnerability Reporting
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current penetration testing methods lack an effective way to report vulnerabilities in real-time, providing comprehensive and interactive insights to security teams, especially for web-based applications, networks, and cloud services.
Innovation Solution
A server system and method that identifies vulnerabilities, assigns risk levels, records screen data, and generates a live media feed with video and audio data to create a real-time reporting system for penetration test results, enabling interactive communication between testers and clients.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If traditional penetration testing reporting methods are used, then vulnerability information can be reported, but real-time interaction and comprehensive insights are lacking
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple reporting modalities (live media feed with video/audio, text-based vulnerability details, interactive chat functionality) into a single integrated reporting platform. This merging of communication channels provides comprehensive insights while maintaining real-time interaction, resolving the contradiction between information completeness and timeliness.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent adds a temporal dimension by implementing live streaming capabilities that transmit vulnerability discovery processes in real-time. This transforms traditional static reporting into dynamic, time-based visualization, allowing security teams to observe vulnerability identification as it happens without sacrificing detail or interactivity.
2Measurement precision
If detailed vulnerability information is provided, then comprehensive assessment is achieved, but interaction and engagement with security teams is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements bidirectional communication channels including live chat functionality that allows security team members to immediately question, clarify, or discuss observed vulnerabilities. This feedback mechanism maintains precise vulnerability assessment while actively engaging the security team in real-time dialogue about the findings.
Solution Approach 2:
The live media feed acts as an intermediary that bridges detailed technical vulnerability data and human comprehension. By visualizing the penetration testing process through video and audio streams, complex technical information becomes more accessible and discussable, enhancing team engagement without sacrificing assessment precision.
3Manufacturing precision
If manual reporting processes are used, then detailed analysis is possible, but reporting speed and efficiency are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables automatic capture and transmission of vulnerability data through the live media feed, which continuously records the penetration testing process without requiring manual intervention for each finding. This self-service approach maintains reporting accuracy by capturing actual tester actions while dramatically improving reporting speed through automated real-time transmission.
Solution Approach 2:
The live media feed performs preliminary documentation of the vulnerability identification process as it occurs, capturing video, audio, and screen data before formal reporting is needed. This preliminary action ensures accurate recording of findings while enabling rapid subsequent reporting, as the detailed analysis is already captured and ready for transmission.
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AI summary
A system and a method for reporting penetration test results. The system identifying a vulnerability of a networked system by testing a target of the networked system. Assigning a risk level to the vulnerability. Activating, based on the risk level of the vulnerability, screen recording of a display device of a computing device of a tester. Receiving video data associated with the screen recording of the display device. Generating a client application associated with the testing of the target of the networked system, the client application including a live media feed. Generating using the vulnerability and the video data, a post on the live media feed.