Extensible Security Health Reporting Framework
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users are overwhelmed by numerous reports from various anti-malware products, making it difficult to determine the actual health of a computer system, as each product generates separate reports for different security threats.
Innovation Solution
An extensible framework for system security state reporting and remediation is provided, allowing independent software vendors to register, create schemas, and publish health statuses through an API, which are then consolidated and displayed on a user interface or consumed by applications, enabling a unified view of system security.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If multiple anti-malware products are installed to provide comprehensive security coverage, then security protection is improved, but the number of separate reports increases making it difficult for users to understand system health
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple separate security reports from different anti-malware products into a single unified security health report. The security health reporting system consolidates status information from various security products, presenting it in one consolidated view that shows the overall security health state without requiring users to interpret multiple separate reports.
Solution Approach 2:
The security health reporting system acts as an intermediary between multiple security products and the user. It receives health status information from various security products through standardized schemas and APIs, processes this information, and presents it in a unified manner that simplifies user understanding while maintaining comprehensive security coverage.
2Loss of information
If each anti-malware product generates its own separate report, then detailed security information is provided, but the quantity of reports becomes overwhelming for users
Solution Approach 1:
The system combines multiple individual security reports into a single consolidated security health report. Instead of presenting separate reports from each anti-malware product, the system merges their health status information into one unified report that maintains detailed security information while reducing the total number of reports from many to one.
Solution Approach 2:
The security health reporting system serves multiple functions: it collects information from various security products, standardizes the data through common schemas, processes the information, and presents a unified health status. This multi-functional approach eliminates the need for users to process multiple separate reports while preserving comprehensive security information.
3Ease of operation
If a unified security health report is implemented, then ease of understanding system health is improved, but the system complexity increases due to framework requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The security health reporting framework is designed to be universally applicable across different security products and platforms. By establishing common schemas and standardized APIs, the framework enables multiple security products to report their status through a single unified interface, simplifying the user experience while providing a structured approach to system integration.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where security products report their health status through standardized schemas, the security health reporting system processes and validates this information, and presents a unified health status to users. This feedback loop ensures consistent data formatting and processing while maintaining ease of understanding through standardized reporting protocols.
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AI summary
A security health reporting system provides an application program interface (API) for use by independent software vendors (ISVs) to extend the security health reporting capabilities of the security health reporting system. An ISV security solution can register with the security health reporting system, create a schema that describes a new security class, and use the API to publish an instance of the schema for the new security class with the security health reporting system. When an instance of a schema for a new security class is published, the security health reporting system creates the new security class, and recognizes the definition for the security class within the security health reporting system. Registered ISV security solutions can then use the published schema to report their health statuses for the new security class.