Mobile Compliance Management System Proactive Violation Prevention

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current methods fail to effectively reduce compliance violations in mobile application management environments, leading to increased user downtime and IT resource utilization when mobile devices are marked as out of compliance.

Innovation Solution

A network traffic management system with compliance management apparatuses that execute compliance checks, identify devices sharing characteristics, and send notifications when a threshold of out-of-compliance devices is reached, allowing users to take preventive actions.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If compliance checks are enforced to identify violations, then security compliance is improved, but user downtime and IT resource utilization increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesecurity complianceVSAvoiduser downtime
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary compliance checks and proactively notifies users of potential violations before they occur. By identifying at-risk devices and notifying users in advance, the system allows users to take corrective actions before compliance violations occur, thereby maintaining security compliance while avoiding user downtime and IT resource utilization associated with enforcing compliance after violations occur.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Reliability

If compliance checks are enforced to identify violations, then security compliance is improved, but IT resource utilization increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesecurity complianceVSAvoidIT resource utilization
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary compliance checks and proactively notifies users of potential violations before they occur. By identifying at-risk devices and notifying users in advance, the system allows users to take corrective actions before compliance violations occur, thereby maintaining security compliance while avoiding IT resource utilization associated with enforcing compliance after violations occur.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system enables users to self-serve by providing them with notifications and information about potential compliance violations. Users can independently review the notifications and take appropriate corrective actions on their own devices without requiring IT resource intervention, thereby reducing IT resource utilization while maintaining security compliance.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

3Reliability

If compliance violations are marked and access is denied, then security enforcement is improved, but productivity decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesecurity enforcementVSAvoiduser productivity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary compliance checks and proactively notifies users of potential violations before they occur. By providing advance notice and allowing users to take corrective actions beforehand, the system maintains security enforcement while preventing productivity losses that would result from denying access to enterprise resources after compliance violations occur.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS10491632B1Methods for reducing compliance violations in mobile application management environments and devices thereof
Publication Date: 2019.11.26 F5 NETWORKS INC
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AI summary

Methods, non-transitory computer readable media, compliance management apparatuses, and network traffic management systems that execute a compliance check to determine when a mobile device is out of compliance. A number of mobile devices that both are out of compliance based on the violation and share a characteristic with the one mobile device is determined, when the determining indicates that the mobile device is out of compliance. A determination is made when the number of the mobile devices exceeds a threshold. Contact data associated with one or more mobile devices that are in compliance and share the characteristic is obtained, when the determining indicates that the number of mobile devices exceeds the threshold. A notification is automatically sent, using the contact data, to each of the mobile devices that share the characteristic. The notification comprises an indication of the violation and one or more precautions.