Login Credential Alert System for Cross-Organization Security
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users' login credentials are often reused across multiple organizations, making them vulnerable to compromise when one organization is hacked, leading to potential data breaches across other connected systems, despite no actual breach occurring in those systems.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that notifies users and organizations of potentially compromised login credentials, allowing for password resets and heightened authentication measures by a transaction processor in cooperation with an internet traffic monitoring service, utilizing existing communication channels and relationships to alert affected organizations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If users reuse passwords across multiple organizations, then ease of operation is improved, but security reliability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback by monitoring login attempts across multiple organizations and sending alerts when compromised credentials are detected. When a data breach occurs at one organization, the system notifies other organizations that share the same username, enabling them to take preventive actions before their systems are compromised.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary monitoring system that acts as a mediator between multiple organizations. This intermediary collects username data from various organizations, detects compromises, and coordinates alerts across the network, enabling collaborative security without requiring direct connections between all organizations.
2Reliability
If organizations implement comprehensive security monitoring across multiple systems, then security reliability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges security monitoring functions into a centralized platform that handles data from multiple organizations. By combining username databases, detection algorithms, and alert distribution into a single system, the patent reduces the complexity that would otherwise exist in each individual organization's security infrastructure.
Solution Approach 2:
The monitoring system is designed with universality to serve multiple organizations simultaneously. A single deployment can protect numerous organizations by monitoring usernames across their entire network, eliminating the need for each organization to implement separate monitoring solutions.
3Loss of information
If organizations establish new communication channels for security alerts, then information flow is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses an intermediary monitoring system that establishes a single communication hub. This intermediary receives breach information from affected organizations and distributes alerts to all relevant organizations through existing communication channels, avoiding the need for each organization to establish direct communication links with every other organization.
Solution Approach 2:
The system replaces complex mechanical communication infrastructure with electronic/digital communication protocols. By using electronic data exchange through the intermediary platform, the patent achieves efficient information flow without requiring physical communication channels between organizations.
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AI summary
Embodiments of the present invention are directed at system and method that notify users and/or organizations when login credentials are potentially compromised. The login credentials may be compromised at a first organization and the alert may be sent to different organizations at which the same login credentials are used. The different organizations can request password resets and heightened authentication measures.