Communication Monitoring Device Inversion Guidance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing communication monitoring devices struggle to effectively guide and restrict communications from information processing devices that are difficult to connect to a communication monitoring device, leading to potential security risks due to uninspected status allowing internal and external network communications.
Innovation Solution
A communication monitoring device with first and second guidance units to redirect communications from a target device to the monitoring device and other devices, along with a guidance success determining unit to cancel unnecessary guidance, ensuring successful communication inspection and resource optimization.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If communication guidance is implemented for all information processing devices, then network security monitoring is improved, but devices that are hard to guide remain uninspected and can communicate freely
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of guiding communication from the target device to the monitoring device (first guidance), the patent implements a second guidance mechanism that guides communication from other devices to the monitoring device. This inverted approach ensures that even if the target device cannot be guided, its communication is still intercepted and monitored through alternative paths.
2Reliability
If communication is redirected to the monitoring device for inspection, then security checking is improved, but communication resources are wasted on devices that already succeed in guidance
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a feedback mechanism where the monitoring device determines whether communication guidance was successful. Based on this feedback, the system selectively applies the second guidance mechanism only when needed (when first guidance failed), avoiding unnecessary resource consumption while maintaining inspection effectiveness.
3Reliability
If the system monitors communication from all devices, then security coverage is improved, but the complexity of managing multiple guidance mechanisms increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a dynamic guidance system that adapts its behavior based on real-time conditions. The system first attempts standard communication guidance, and only activates the alternative second guidance mechanism when the first fails. This dynamic approach ensures comprehensive security coverage while keeping the system manageable by activating complex mechanisms only when necessary.
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AI summary
A communication monitoring device 20 includes a first communication guidance unit 23 which guides a communication from a inspection target node 90 to the communication monitoring device 20, a second communication guidance unit 24 which guides, to the communication monitoring device 20, the communication to the inspection target node 90 from another information processing device, a transmitting/receiving unit 25 which receives the communication addressed to the communication monitoring device 20, a guidance success determining unit 26 which determines, when receiving the communication addressed to the communication monitoring device 20 from the inspection target node 90, that the first communication guidance unit 23 succeeds in the guidance, and a communication guidance canceling unit 28 which cancels, when determining that the first communication guidance unit 23 succeeds in the guidance, the communication guidance of the second communication guidance unit 24.