Network Security Campaigns for Tracer File Gap Detection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current network security systems fail to efficiently discover and address network security vulnerabilities in a timely and practical manner, often relying on theoretical approaches or third-party services that lack insight into an organization's specific security gaps, leading to potential data exfiltration.
Innovation Solution
A risk assessment computing device generates network security campaigns that allow authorized users to create and attempt to remove tracer files from a network, providing real-world data on potential security gaps while controlling access through IP address restrictions and validating user-generated files for security risk analysis.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If third-party services are used to locate network security gaps, then external expertise is obtained, but little insight into organization-specific security gaps is gained and control is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The organization performs its own network security gap detection using internal employees as authorized users. The system enables self-service security assessment where the organization's own personnel conduct the tracer file operations and security gap identification, providing both external expertise through the platform and internal insight through employee participation.
2Loss of information
If traditional security assessment methods are used, then theoretical knowledge is applied, but practical real-world security gap data is not obtained
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables continuous security assessment through ongoing tracer file operations. Authorized users can continuously generate, retrieve, and upload tracer files, providing continuous real-world security gap data rather than periodic theoretical assessments. This continuous action generates practical information about actual security vulnerabilities.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback loops where tracer file operations provide real-world feedback about security gaps. When authorized users successfully retrieve or upload tracer files, this feedback reveals actual security vulnerabilities in the network, converting theoretical knowledge into practical security intelligence.
3Loss of information
If authorized users attempt to remove tracer files from the network, then real-world data on data exfiltration methods is obtained, but network security risk increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system converts potentially harmful tracer file removal attempts into beneficial security intelligence. By allowing authorized users to attempt tracer file retrieval and upload operations, the system safely captures real-world data exfiltration methods that would otherwise represent security incidents. The controlled environment transforms security risks into valuable information about actual vulnerabilities.
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AI summary
A risk assessment (RA) computing device for generating network security campaigns to discover network security gaps. The RA computing device includes at least one processor in communication with a memory and a network. The RA computing device is programmed to generate a tracer file and transmit the tracer file to the network for enabling a verified user to attempt to retrieve the tracer file from the network. The verified user retrieves the tracer file from the network and uploads the tracer file to the RA computing device. The RA computing device performs one or more validations against the tracer file to verify that the tracer file was generated by the verified user.