Network Security Whitelist System with Honeypot Mitigation
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Solution Overview
Problem
The increased connectivity and utilization of sensitive resources in modern networks have heightened the risk of unauthorized access to digital resources, with existing technologies failing to effectively mitigate risks associated with compromised resource access accounts.
Innovation Solution
A network security risk mitigation system that generates a whitelist of permitted access sources, allowing only authorized sources to access resources, and implements risk mitigation tasks such as alerts and security features to protect against unauthorized access, including the use of a honeypot to monitor and deflect unauthorized access attempts.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional access control methods are used, then system simplicity is maintained, but security against unauthorized access is insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments access control into multiple independent components: whitelist generation module, access source identification module, and risk mitigation module. Each component performs a specific function, allowing the system to achieve comprehensive security through modular architecture rather than a monolithic complex system.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by generating whitelists of permitted access sources before unauthorized access attempts occur. By pre-establishing authorized access patterns and sources, the system can quickly identify and mitigate risks without requiring complex real-time analysis during access attempts.
2Reliability
If access is restricted to whitelisted sources only, then unauthorized access is prevented, but legitimate access flexibility is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The whitelist is not static but dynamically generated and updated based on observed access patterns and risk assessments. The system can adapt the whitelist contents over time, allowing legitimate access flexibility while maintaining strict control against unauthorized sources. This dynamic approach resolves the contradiction between rigid access control and flexible adaptability.
3Difficulty of detecting and measuring
If monitoring and mitigation tasks are implemented, then detection capability is improved, but system resource consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces intermediary components such as honeypots and proxy servers that absorb monitoring and mitigation tasks. These intermediaries act as buffers between the main system and unauthorized access attempts, enabling comprehensive monitoring without requiring the core system to consume excessive resources directly handling each access attempt.
Data Source
AI summary
Enhanced electronic security systems and methods are provided. A whitelist, blacklist, or both of resource access sources that are allowed to use a particular resource access account are obtained. Upon detecting an access attempt to a particular resource on a computer network, a source of the access attempt and a resource access account used in the access attempt is identified. The whitelist, blacklist, or both are referenced to determine if the source of the access attempt is allowed to use the resource access account used in the access attempt. When the source of the access attempt is not allowed to use the resource access account used in the access attempt, one or more mitigation tasks may be performed.