Offensive Cybersecurity Appliance Neutralizing Attacker Hardware
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current cybersecurity strategies, such as Layered-Defense and Defense-in-Depth, are inadequate in effectively deterring cybercriminals and mitigating real-time cyber threats like RaaS and kill-ware, as they primarily focus on technical controls and are inflexible and complex.
Innovation Solution
The Payne Offensive Cybersecurity Appliance (OCA) employs an autonomous AI/ML-based system that assesses incoming cyber threats, generates cyber spiders to disable attacker components, and uses an APT-based CoC to target and neutralize cyber attackers' hardware, making future attacks costly for malicious actors.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If Layered-Defense and Defense-in-Depth strategies are implemented with multiple redundant defensive measures, then information processing assets are shielded from malware and cyber threats, but the system becomes inflexible, complex, and susceptible to exploitation
Solution Approach 1:
The patent inverts the traditional defensive approach by implementing an offensive cybersecurity appliance that proactively attacks cyber attackers' systems. Instead of building multiple layers of defense, the system generates cyber spiders and electromagnetic pulses to destroy attacker hardware, fundamentally reversing the defense-offense paradigm to simplify the security architecture while maintaining reliability
Solution Approach 2:
The patent extracts the core protective function from complex multi-layered defense systems and concentrates it into a single offensive appliance. By removing the need for multiple redundant defensive controls and replacing them with a focused offensive capability, the system reduces complexity while preserving security effectiveness
2Reliability
If Defense-in-Depth incorporates multiple redundant information security defensive measures including forensic recovery, intrusion detection, and alarm systems, then comprehensive security coverage is achieved, but implementation and management become more complex and expensive
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces complex multi-dimensional defensive controls with a single offensive appliance that actively hunts and neutralizes threats. By inverting the approach from passive multi-layered defense to active offensive countermeasures, the system achieves comprehensive security coverage while dramatically simplifying implementation and management operations
Solution Approach 2:
The offensive cybersecurity appliance operates autonomously using AI/ML algorithms to self-manage threat detection, cyber spider generation, and electromagnetic pulse deployment. The system performs self-service functions including automatic threat assessment, profile generation, and counterattack execution, eliminating the need for complex manual management and segmentation of responsibilities
3Productivity
If conventional offensive counterattack strategies use traffic flow termination and botnet capture, then cyber attacks are neutralized, but the attacker's hardware remains operational and can be reused for future attacks
Solution Approach 1:
The patent converts the attacker's hardware into a benefit by using electromagnetic pulses to destroy it, preventing future attacks. The same hardware that enabled the cyber attack is transformed into a target for destruction, converting the attack vector into a deterrent mechanism that eliminates the threat source permanently
Solution Approach 2:
The system applies preliminary anti-action by destroying the attacker's hardware before they can launch future attacks. By proactively eliminating the attacker's capability through electromagnetic pulse destruction of hardware components, the system prevents recurrence of cyber threats rather than merely responding to them
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AI summary
An artificial intelligence based Offensive Cybersecurity Appliance or OCA for launching a cyber-offensive countermeasure aimed at effectively mitigating sophisticated cyber threats such as real-time Ransomware as a Service (RaaS) directives and emergent killware instigated by malicious-threat actors or cyber attackers. The system covertly uses a vast array of penetrative counter cyber attacks, based on an Advanced Persistent Threat or APT model, to circumvent encountered information security controls instituted by security-based components of a cyber attacker's Local Area Network or LAN. Intrinsically, the penetrative counter cyber attacks are constituted of multiple blended artificial intelligence based cyber attacks. The OCA subsequently uses these blended artificial intelligence based cyber attacks to render the hardware (including the cyber attacker's computer system used to instigate the cyber attack, discovered peripheral smart devices, and network-edge device such as a modem-router) interconnected to the cyber attacker's LAN inoperable by destroying the electronic components associated with that hardware.