MiMMSE Automated Vulnerability Scanning and Compliance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current vulnerability scanning and compliance processes rely heavily on human expertise and are resource-intensive, particularly for organizations needing to adhere to complex cybersecurity standards like NIST 800-171 and CMMC, which can be challenging for small or large companies with extensive networks.
Innovation Solution
The Machine-in-the-Middle Microserviced Security Engine (MiMMSE) automates vulnerability scanning and compliance by using a zero-trust cloud environment with machine learning for improved security testing, one-way traffic for command execution, encryption, and a zero-trust architecture to provide real-time security posture assessment and reporting.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If human experts perform vulnerability scanning and compliance auditing, then assessment accuracy and judgment can be maintained, but resource consumption increases and productivity decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables organizations to perform self-audit and self-assessment against cybersecurity standards through automated vulnerability scanning. The platform provides self-service capabilities for compliance auditing, allowing organizations to independently evaluate their security posture without requiring external human experts for each assessment task.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual human assessment processes with automated computer-based vulnerability scanning systems. The mechanical system of human experts manually reviewing security controls is substituted with automated tools that systematically scan, detect, and report vulnerabilities, thereby increasing productivity while maintaining assessment reliability through comprehensive automated coverage.
2Adaptability or versatility
If organizations perform self-audit against complex security standards like NIST 800-171 and CMMC, then compliance capability is improved, but the complexity of the auditing process increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the complex compliance auditing process into discrete, manageable components. Each security control in standards like NIST 800-171 and CMMC is broken down into individual scanable elements, allowing the system to systematically address each requirement separately while presenting a unified compliance report.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary software platform that mediates between the organization's security systems and the complex compliance standards. This intermediary layer translates complex standard requirements into automated scan commands, processes the results, and generates compliance reports, thereby reducing the perceived complexity for the organization performing the audit.
3Reliability
If comprehensive vulnerability scanning is performed across extensive networks, then security coverage is improved, but the time required for scanning and reporting increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements continuous vulnerability scanning operations that run continuously or at frequent intervals across the network. Rather than performing one-time comprehensive scans that take extensive time, the platform maintains continuous monitoring and scanning actions, providing ongoing security coverage while reducing the time required between assessment cycles.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs preliminary actions by performing rapid initial scans and assessments before comprehensive deep-dive scanning. The system conducts preliminary vulnerability identification and classification, then focuses subsequent scanning efforts on high-risk areas, thereby reducing overall scanning time while maintaining comprehensive security coverage through targeted deep scans of critical assets.
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AI summary
Vulnerability scanning systems and methods are provided for automatically performing the steps necessary for compliance testing and auditing of an organization's systems, and determining security posture in real time. A Machine-in-the-Middle Microserviced Security Engine (MiMMSE) is provided that provides one-way traffic for command execution and security improvement, management for automating services in OS containers, the elimination of multiple connections to services per client to give users more control of network access, total data destruction after each run to reduce attack surfaces, encryption over container services, reverse tunnel or VPN traffic between pods, clusters, and other separated networks, and machine learning (e.g., neural-network-based) maps for command execution order.