Multi-domain Management System for Access Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current management systems for large-scale electronic infrastructures with multiple domains lack effective control over user privileges and access across multiple domains, leading to risks of uncontrolled interactions and errors.
Innovation Solution
A multi-domain management system with a user connection component, sub-system interface component, and management component that applies authentication/authorization controls and provides controlled access across domains, automating access and provisioning while ensuring scope-controlled interaction and reducing manual errors.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a master server type of control is created at a higher than single domain level, then trans-domain user capability is enhanced, but risk of uncontrolled privilege and access across domains increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments access control into multiple hierarchical levels: domain-level controls and top-level console controls. Each level has distinct authentication and authorization mechanisms, allowing granular management of user privileges across different domains while maintaining overall system security through layered control structures.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary access control layer between users and domains that mediates authentication and authorization. This intermediary component evaluates user credentials, determines appropriate access levels, and enforces scope-controlled interactions, preventing direct uncontrolled access while enabling legitimate trans-domain operations.
2Reliability
If conventional tools such as line item controls or rudimentary web-based controls are used, then domain level control is maintained, but multi-domain management capability is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal access control framework that operates consistently across multiple domains while adapting to domain-specific requirements. The same authentication and authorization mechanisms serve both single-domain and multi-domain scenarios, enabling scalable management from individual domain control to enterprise-wide multi-domain orchestration.
Solution Approach 2:
The system adds a temporal and hierarchical dimension to access control by introducing top-level console controls that operate above individual domain levels. This dimensional expansion allows centralized management of multiple domains while preserving the ability to enforce domain-specific policies, transforming the control architecture from flat to multi-layered.
3Reliability
If scope-controlled interaction is implemented, then risk of inadvertent error is mitigated, but user capability across domains may be diminished
Solution Approach 1:
The access control system dynamically adjusts user permissions and interaction scopes based on authentication results, user roles, and contextual factors. Rather than imposing static restrictions, the system adapts control levels in real-time, enabling broad access where appropriate while enforcing restrictions where risks exist, thus maintaining both safety and operational flexibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent incorporates feedback mechanisms where the access control system continuously monitors user interactions, evaluates compliance with scope controls, and adjusts permissions accordingly. This feedback loop ensures that risk mitigation measures do not unnecessarily constrain legitimate operations, as the system learns from usage patterns and optimizes access grants to balance security with operational efficiency.
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AI summary
The innovation disclosed and claimed herein, in one aspect thereof, comprises systems and methods of an improved multi-domain management system. The innovation provides mitigation of uncontrolled privilege and access, lacking defined roles for at user. The innovation mitigates risk of inadvertent error while not diminishing desired trans-domain user capability. Functions such as creating user and/or service accounts, group creations, group memberships, host memberships, and the like, may thus be undertaken from a single high level location, based on controlled user rules at that level, and may do so without regard or limitation to the specific domains or master server controls at the specific domains. Agnostic aspects are coupled with scalability regardless of number of domains. Such an improved management system provides for mitigating risk of human interactions across multiple domains and multiple domain interactions without diminishing desired user controls at the highest electronic infrastructure interaction level.