Security Gateway Traffic Validation for Privacy Policy Enforcement
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing online platforms lack appropriate data security and privacy protection for protected information contained in or sent with ingress traffic and responses over computer networks.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a security gateway with a proxy server and gateway agent to validate ingress traffic and responses based on predetermined validation requirements, ensuring only valid traffic is allowed or blocked, with the gateway potentially owned and operated by a neutral third party to enforce data security and privacy policies independently.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a security gateway is implemented to validate ingress traffic and responses, then data security and privacy protection is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a security gateway as an intermediary component between the online platform and external networks. The gateway includes a proxy server and gateway agent that validate ingress traffic and responses before they reach the platform, acting as a mediator that enforces security policies without requiring changes to the core platform architecture. This resolves the contradiction by providing security through an added layer rather than complicating the existing system.
2Reliability
If all traffic is routed through a security gateway for validation, then privacy policy enforcement is improved, but loss of time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The security gateway performs validation checks on ingress traffic and responses before they are fully processed by the online platform. By conducting security and privacy validations in advance (preliminarily), the gateway ensures that only compliant traffic is allowed through, preventing policy violations before they occur. This approach enforces privacy policies effectively while minimizing downstream processing delays.
3Reliability
If a neutral third party operates the security gateway, then objectivity of security enforcement is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the security gateway operation into distinct functional components: the proxy server for traffic routing, the gateway agent for validation, and the policy enforcement module. This segmentation allows different entities (including neutral third parties) to operate specific components independently while maintaining overall system coherence. The modular structure enables objective security enforcement by separating security functions from platform operations.
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AI summary
A security gateway for validating ingress traffic and/or a response to the ingress traffic in a computer network, and a method for validating the same. The security gateway includes a proxy server and a gateway agent. The proxy server receives the ingress traffic and/or the response and forwards the ingress traffic and/or the response to the gateway agent. The gateway agent validates the ingress traffic and/or the response as valid ingress traffic and/or valid response or invalid ingress traffic and/or invalid response based on predetermined validation requirements. The proxy server further receives the valid ingress traffic from the gateway agent and forwards the valid ingress traffic to a backend service and/or receives the valid response from the gateway agent and forwards the valid response to a client device or blocks the invalid ingress traffic and/or invalid response.