Local Route Endpoint Authorization for Stable Private Access Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current conditional access policies in compute resource management are limited and vulnerable to cyberattacks due to reliance on public internet addresses that frequently change, leading to security vulnerabilities.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a local route within a private network with an immutable local route endpoint that acts as a proxy for authorization services, ensuring all traffic remains within the private network, using a local route identifier to enforce adaptive authorization policies.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If public internet addresses are used for authorization services, then access control can be implemented, but security vulnerabilities increase due to address changes and exposure to attacks
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a local route endpoint as an intermediary component between clients and authorization services. This endpoint resides within the private network and mediates all authorization traffic, preventing direct exposure of public internet addresses to external attacks while maintaining access control functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent extracts the authorization service functionality from the public internet and places it within the private network through the local route endpoint. This extraction removes the harmful exposure of public addresses while preserving the essential authorization control capabilities.
2Reliability
If public internet addresses are managed for authorization, then access control is enabled, but management complexity increases due to address changes over time
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of managing public internet addresses to access authorization services, the patent inverts the approach by using a private local route endpoint that clients must traverse to reach authorization services. This inversion simplifies management by using stable private network identifiers rather than changing public addresses.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the identifier parameter from public internet addresses (which change over time) to local route identifiers (which remain stable). This parameter change fundamentally simplifies management while maintaining access control reliability.
3Reliability
If traffic is routed through public internet for authorization, then access control can be enforced, but network security is weakened due to exposure to spoofing and brute force attacks
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates an inert network environment by routing all authorization traffic through the private network via the local route endpoint. This private network environment isolates authorization traffic from the external internet, preventing spoofing and brute force attacks while maintaining access control enforcement.
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AI summary
Generally discussed herein are devices, systems, and methods for adaptive authorization using a local route as a named location. A method can include defining a local route and a corresponding local route endpoint, associating a compute resource as a destination of the local route endpoint, defining an adaptive authorization policy that limits access to the compute resource to be through the local route endpoint, and enforcing access to the compute resource based on the defined adaptive authorization policy.