Dynamic Remote Request Validation via Enterprise Security Intermediary
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional security software in enterprise networks faces challenges in assessing the legitimacy and safety of remote requests due to insufficient information, making it difficult to determine whether to grant or deny access to computing resources.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method that dynamically validates remote requests by querying an enterprise security system to authorize the request, obtaining contextual information, and generating a notification based on the trustworthiness of the remote system, allowing the target system to decide whether to grant or deny the request.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional security software uses only IP address and MAC address for validation, then the validation process is simple and fast, but the security agent cannot make fully informed decisions about request legitimacy
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an enterprise security system as an intermediary between the target system and remote system. The security system collects contextual information from multiple sources (endpoint protection status, user credentials, device inventory, security policies) and provides comprehensive validation decisions, enabling the target system to make fully informed decisions without directly gathering all this information itself.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent performs preliminary validation actions by querying the enterprise security system before the actual remote execution is permitted. The security system proactively gathers contextual information about the remote system, target system, and request parameters, and pre-determines whether the request should be allowed, preventing potentially malicious actions before they occur.
2Reliability
If traditional security agents make decisions without comprehensive contextual information, then the system operates quickly, but it cannot accurately determine whether remote requests are legitimate or malicious
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the security validation functionality into separate modular components: the target system that receives requests, the enterprise security system that performs validation, and various information sources (endpoint protection, user credentials, device inventory). Each component has a specific responsibility, making the overall complex system manageable and maintainable while achieving high validation accuracy.
3Reliability
If the security system queries multiple information sources for contextual data, then the validation becomes more thorough, but the processing time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The enterprise security system maintains pre-collected contextual information about endpoints, users, and devices in its inventory. When a remote execution request arrives, the system queries this pre-prepared information rather than gathering all data in real-time, significantly reducing processing time while still providing thorough validation based on comprehensive security context.
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AI summary
The disclosed computer-implemented method for dynamically validating remote requests within enterprise networks may include (1) receiving, on a target system within an enterprise network, a request to access a portion of the target system from a remote system within the enterprise network, (2) performing a validation operation to determine whether the remote system is trustworthy to access the portion of the target system by (A) querying an enterprise security system to authorize the request from the remote system and (B) receiving, from the enterprise security system in response to the query, a notification indicating whether the remote system is trustworthy to access the portion of the target system, and then (3) determining whether to grant the request based at least in part on the notification received from the enterprise security system as part of the validation operation. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.