Security Assessment Orchestration for Real-Time Attack Validation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current security assessment methods lack a comprehensive, automated, and integrated approach to validate the performance of security tools and infrastructure, leading to fragmented feedback, compatibility issues, and inefficiencies in blue and red team coordination, resulting in costly and time-consuming processes.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for assessing security in computing environments that provides agnostic connectivity between blue and red teams, offering real-time feedback and prioritized solutions, integrating with existing security infrastructures to evaluate and recommend improvements across IT/OT, IoT, and cloud environments.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If manual validation processes are used to test security tool performance, then customization and flexibility are improved, but productivity and scalability deteriorate due to dependency on human activity
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables automated self-validation of security tools through orchestration workflows that automatically execute attack simulations, collect telemetry data, and generate validation reports without requiring continuous human intervention, thereby maintaining customization while improving scalability
Solution Approach 2:
Manual validation processes are replaced with automated computational systems that use machine learning models and orchestration engines to perform security tool validation, substituting human mechanical activities with automated digital processes that can scale indefinitely
2Measurement precision
If multiple siloed attack packages are deployed to test security frameworks, then measurement precision is improved through comprehensive testing, but device complexity and information silos worsen due to lack of integration
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple attack packages and security tools are merged into a unified orchestration platform that manages diverse attack simulations (black box, gray box, white box) through a single integrated system, reducing complexity while maintaining comprehensive testing capabilities
Solution Approach 2:
The orchestration system provides universal functionality to manage multiple types of attack packages and security tools through a common interface and standardized telemetry collection mechanisms, enabling diverse testing without proportionally increasing system complexity
3Reliability
If comprehensive security validation is performed across all security tools, then reliability is improved, but loss of time increases due to extensive testing requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs partial validation by focusing on critical security tools and high-risk attack scenarios first, using risk-based prioritization to validate the most important security functions without requiring exhaustive testing of every single tool, thereby maintaining reliability while reducing time loss
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary validation through automated baseline assessments and continuous monitoring that pre-validate security tools before full-scale attack simulations, allowing for faster comprehensive validation by having preliminary data already collected and analyzed
Data Source
AI summary
The present disclosure provides for systems and methods for assessing security in a computing environment. The system may comprise two or more attacks simultaneously. The system may comprise one or more attack simulations wherein the results are displayed in substantially real time. The system may comprise one or more performance indicators. The performance indicators may provide insight into what attacks are blocked, detected, logged, or alerted. The system may comprise one or more prioritized recommendations for security solutions, which may comprise one or more tool recommendations. The attack path may comprise an aggregation of one or more attack techniques. The system may comprise one or more endpoint solutions or recommendations. The system may integrate as a third-party software into an existing company or security infrastructure. The system may comprise at least one security validation test configured to target at least one security infrastructure of a scoped computing environment.