Secure PoC Storage Platform for Vulnerability Remediation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current cybersecurity vulnerability reporting and retesting models lack a well-defined mechanism for storing and maintaining artifacts such as Proof-of-Concepts (PoCs), leading to loss or degradation of these critical demos, which are essential for illustrating software vulnerabilities, and do not provide a secure or efficient way for product teams to reproduce and remediate issues without environmental overhead.
Innovation Solution
A software as a service platform allows security experts to build, share, and retest PoCs on a separate, encrypted third-party server, reducing environmental and operational costs, enabling secure storage, reproduction, and automated retesting without requiring continuous maintenance, and includes features like automatic PoC generators and threat detectors for enhanced security.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If PoCs are stored and maintained using current vulnerability tracking models, then vulnerability tracking can proceed, but the PoCs are lost or degraded during the lifecycle
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts PoCs from the traditional vulnerability tracking lifecycle and stores them in a dedicated, immutable repository. This separation ensures PoCs are preserved independently from the vulnerability tracking process, preventing degradation while maintaining reliability for future reproduction and analysis.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent performs preliminary actions by capturing and storing PoCs immediately when generated, before they can be lost or degraded. The PoCs are preserved in their original form with all associated metadata, code, and artifacts, ensuring they remain intact for future use without requiring continuous maintenance.
2Manufacturing precision
If security experts create detailed PoCs with code and environmental setup, then vulnerability illustration is improved, but storage and maintenance complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses copying by storing PoCs as immutable digital artifacts that can be replicated exactly without degradation. The PoCs are captured in their original form and stored with all dependencies, allowing precise reproduction without requiring complex maintenance of the original development environment.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal PoC storage system that handles multiple types of artifacts (code, configurations, network traffic, environmental setup) in a single repository. This multi-functional approach simplifies storage and maintenance by providing a unified mechanism for preserving all PoC components regardless of their specific type or complexity.
3Ease of operation
If product teams reproduce vulnerabilities using current methods, then issue understanding is achieved, but environmental overhead and continuous maintenance are required
Solution Approach 1:
The patent enables self-service by providing product teams with direct access to stored PoCs that contain all necessary code, configurations, and environmental setup. Teams can independently reproduce vulnerabilities using the preserved artifacts without requiring security team intervention or maintaining complex test environments, reducing both operational overhead and resource consumption.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent performs preliminary action by pre-configuring and storing complete PoC environments with all dependencies and artifacts. This allows product teams to immediately reproduce vulnerabilities without setting up environments from scratch, eliminating continuous maintenance requirements while maintaining ease of reproduction.
4Productivity
If security teams manually rebuild PoCs through reverse engineering, then vulnerability analysis continues, but time and resource loss increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts PoCs from the vulnerability tracking process and preserves them in a dedicated repository, eliminating the need for security teams to manually rebuild them through reverse engineering. This separation maintains productivity by ensuring PoCs remain available in their original form while reducing time loss associated with reconstruction efforts.
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AI summary
A platform creating a third-party secure testing region for security experts to build and test proof-of-concepts thereby allowing the security expert or security team to report and retest the cybersecurity vulnerability and relay said vulnerability to the product team who can remediate the problem. The platform of the present invention also allows for automatic retesting of the vulnerability as soon as remediation is finished. Further, the present invention may optionally include an automatic proof-of-concept generator or automatic threat detector.