Organization-Attribute SaaS Security Configuration Distribution
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional methods for sharing security-based rules among entities are haphazard, untrustworthy, and inconsistent, leading to uncertainty about the relevance of the rules to an organization's specific security concerns.
Innovation Solution
A security configurations management server that evaluates and distributes SaaS security configurations based on organizational attributes, allowing organizations to selectively adopt and enforce relevant security configurations from trusted sources, ensuring compatibility and relevance.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If security rules are shared through conventional methods (email, web forums), then sharing is simple and accessible, but trustworthiness, reliability, and consistency are compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a security rule marketplace platform as an intermediary between security rule creators and consumers. This platform mediates the sharing process by providing verification mechanisms, reputation systems, and standardized distribution channels, thereby maintaining ease of access while significantly improving trustworthiness and reliability of shared security rules
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements feedback mechanisms including user ratings, review systems, and verification feedback loops within the marketplace. These feedback systems allow organizations to evaluate the effectiveness and trustworthiness of shared security rules, creating a self-improving ecosystem where reliable rules are promoted and unreliable ones are filtered out
2Adaptability or versatility
If security rules are shared broadly across multiple sources, then availability increases, but relevance to specific organizational security concerns decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent enables security rules to be tagged with organization-specific attributes, industry categories, threat types, and compliance requirements. This allows the marketplace to filter and recommend rules with local quality tailored to each organization's specific security context, ensuring high relevance while maintaining broad availability across different organizational types
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the security rule marketplace into specialized categories and niches (e.g., industry-specific sections, threat-type classifications, compliance-framework alignments). This segmentation allows organizations to navigate and access only the most relevant rules for their specific needs, improving measurement precision of relevance while maintaining overall system availability
3Reliability
If security configurations are customized for each organization, then relevance and trustworthiness improve, but complexity of distribution and management increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal marketplace platform that serves multiple functions: rule publication, verification, filtering, recommendation, and distribution. This single multi-functional system handles customization needs across diverse organizations without requiring separate complex distribution channels for each organization, thereby maintaining trustworthiness while managing complexity
4Measurement precision
If security rules are manually evaluated and selected for each organization, then relevance improves, but time and resource consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary filtering and categorization of security rules at the point of publication. Rules are pre-tagged with relevant metadata, verified for basic quality standards, and organized into categories before being made available in the marketplace. This preliminary action reduces the evaluation burden on organizations while maintaining high relevance
Solution Approach 2:
The patent enables organizations to autonomously search, filter, evaluate, and select security rules from the marketplace using automated tools and interfaces. This self-service approach allows organizations to efficiently find relevant rules without manual intermediary evaluation, significantly improving productivity while maintaining measurement precision through automated filtering and recommendation algorithms
Data Source
AI summary
SaaS security configurations distribution and management are disclosed, including: providing first software as a service (SaaS) security configurations for a first organization that are applicable to the first organization based at least in part on first attributes of the first organization, wherein the first SaaS security configurations trigger first security actions upon detection of first relevant events; providing second SaaS security configurations for a second organization that are applicable to the second organization based at least in part on second attributes of the second organization, wherein the second SaaS security configurations trigger second security actions upon detection of second relevant events; and selectively presenting, at a user interface, at least a portion of the second SaaS security configurations that is applicable to the first organization based at least in part on the first attributes of the first organization.