Unified Risk Dashboard for Network File Tracking
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing risk tracking systems in networked environments face challenges in correlating and presenting information about file access attempts, attributes, and potential risks, leading to vulnerabilities in data security due to the lack of integrated logging and diagnostic capabilities.
Innovation Solution
A risk tracking system with a graphical user interface, known as an executive risk dashboard, that aggregates and links information on file locations, risk categories, and egress points, using a tracker engine to identify and display potential security threats and trends, enabling network administrators to diagnose and mitigate risks effectively.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If separate logging systems are used for file access attempts, attributes, and risk levels, then each system can be simple and focused, but the information cannot be correlated or presented in a single viewport
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines separate logging systems for file access attempts, attributes, and risk levels into a unified risk tracking system. The tracker engine aggregates data from multiple sources including file access logs, user activity logs, and security event logs into a single integrated system that can correlate and present comprehensive risk information in one viewport through the graphical user interface.
Solution Approach 2:
The risk tracking system performs multiple functions within a single system: it logs file access attempts, tracks file attributes, evaluates risk levels, correlates information across different data sources, and presents unified risk assessments. This multi-functional approach eliminates the need for separate specialized systems while maintaining comprehensive monitoring capabilities.
2Loss of information
If multiple separate graphical user interfaces are used to view access information, then each interface can be simple and focused on specific data, but the information cannot be viewed through a single viewport
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple separate graphical user interfaces into a single unified executive risk dashboard. This dashboard consolidates file access information, risk assessments, and security events into one comprehensive viewport, allowing administrators to view all relevant information in a single interface rather than switching between multiple separate tools.
Solution Approach 2:
While presenting unified information, the graphical user interface segments data into organized categories such as risk levels, file locations, access attempts, and egress points. This segmentation allows complex information to be displayed in a structured, navigable format that maintains ease of operation while providing comprehensive visibility.
3Reliability
If detailed tracking of all file access attempts is implemented, then security monitoring capability is improved, but the system complexity and resource requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts and focuses tracking on the most critical security-relevant attributes of file access attempts, such as risk levels, egress points, and unusual access patterns. Rather than tracking every detail of all file operations, the system identifies and monitors only the attributes that contribute to security risk assessment, reducing complexity while maintaining monitoring effectiveness.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically adjusts tracking parameters based on risk assessment, monitoring detailed attributes for high-risk files and operations while using simplified tracking for low-risk scenarios. This adaptive parameter approach maintains high security monitoring capability for critical events while reducing overall system complexity and resource requirements.
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AI summary
Provided herein are systems and methods for risk tracking. A tracker engine executable on servers may provide, in a user interface, a plurality of categories of locations for files in a networked environment. The tracker engine may identify in the user interface risk categories of the files in each of the categories of the locations. The tracker engine may provide, in the user interface, types of egress points for the files. The tracker engine may generate links between the categories of the locations of the files, the risk categories of the files and the types of egress points for the files. Details about each of the files may be navigable from the user interface via a corresponding category of a location of the file, a corresponding risk category of the file or a corresponding type of egress point for the file.