Security-Aware API Orchestration for Flex-on-Demand VDI
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing VDI environments face vulnerabilities from anticipated and non-anticipated security threats, necessitating an efficient and resource-effective approach to combine APIs from multiple vendors to minimize these risks without extensive engineering efforts.
Innovation Solution
An orchestrator assembles API combinations using resource and security parameters, tests vulnerability results, and an analyzer generates a trained model to infer the lowest vulnerability API combination based on customer-specific parameters, deploying a secure VDI environment.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple vendor APIs are combined to provide flexible VDI provisioning, then adaptability and versatility improve, but device complexity and difficulty of detecting and measuring increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary system consisting of an orchestrator and analyzer that mediates between multiple vendor APIs and the VDI provisioning process. The orchestrator receives provisioning requests, the analyzer evaluates security vulnerability scores for different API combinations, and the orchestrator selects optimal combinations based on security parameters. This intermediary layer simplifies the complexity of directly managing multiple vendor APIs by providing a unified security-aware interface.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the selection parameter from purely technical or cost-based criteria to security vulnerability scores. By introducing security parameters as the primary decision criterion, the system transforms the API selection process into a security-optimized process. The analyzer evaluates different API combinations based on their vulnerability scores, and the orchestrator selects combinations that minimize security risks while maintaining provisioning flexibility.
2Reliability
If extensive engineering efforts are made to test all API combinations for security vulnerabilities, then reliability improves, but loss of time and use of energy increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-evaluating and pre-ranking API combinations based on their security vulnerability scores before actual VDI provisioning occurs. The analyzer continuously monitors and updates vulnerability information about different API combinations, so that when provisioning requests arrive, the security assessment is already prepared. This eliminates the need for extensive real-time testing of all API combinations during provisioning events.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where the analyzer continuously monitors security vulnerability scores of different API combinations and provides this information back to the orchestrator. The orchestrator uses this feedback to make informed decisions about which API combinations to select for provisioning. This feedback loop ensures that security information is continuously updated and utilized without requiring re-testing of all combinations whenever provisioning occurs.
3Measurement precision
If all valid API combinations are tested to find the lowest vulnerability result, then manufacturing precision and measurement precision improve, but loss of time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies partial action by evaluating only the necessary API combinations based on pre-established security criteria and vulnerability scores, rather than exhaustively testing all possible combinations. The analyzer prioritizes API combinations based on their security profiles, allowing the system to make precise vulnerability assessments by focusing on the most relevant combinations rather than all possibilities. This partial evaluation approach maintains measurement precision while significantly reducing the time required.
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AI summary
A method for managing virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environments includes: obtaining, by an orchestrator, a resource related parameter and a security related parameter; assembling, by the orchestrator, an application programming interface (API) combination to generate a VDI environment based on a plurality of vendor-provided APIs; testing, by the orchestrator and for a vulnerability result, the VDI environment across a range of users based on the resource related parameter and security related parameter; providing, by the orchestrator, the range of users and VDI environment to an analyzer, in which the analyzer is instructed by the orchestrator to generate a model that minimizes the vulnerability result of the VDI environment; generating, by the analyzer, a trained model by training the model using at least the range of users, VDI environment, security related parameter, resource related parameter, and vulnerability result; and initiating, by the analyzer, notification of an administrator about the trained model.