Security Monitor Synchronization via Shared Exception Database
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users are often prompted multiple times to confirm whether they want to visit potentially malicious websites, leading to a poor user experience and increased computational overhead due to the lack of efficient synchronization between device and network security monitors.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a system where acknowledgment information is passed between security monitors to prevent redundant prompts, allowing user choices to be forwarded from the device security monitor to network security monitors, thus synchronizing their actions without relying on a centralized exception database.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If multiple security monitors independently block potentially malicious websites, then security coverage is improved, but user experience deteriorates due to multiple redundant prompts
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the prompt management functions of multiple security monitors by having them share a common exception database. When one monitor determines a site is safe or the user authorizes access, this decision is recorded in the shared database, preventing other monitors from displaying redundant prompts. This combines the independent security functions while eliminating the conflicting user prompts.
Solution Approach 2:
The exception database acts as an intermediary between multiple security monitors and the user. Instead of each monitor directly prompting the user independently, they all query and update this shared intermediary database, which coordinates their actions and ensures only one prompt is displayed per site per user session.
2Reliability
If multiple security monitors independently evaluate website safety, then security reliability is improved, but computational overhead increases due to redundant analysis
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary security evaluation by having the first security monitor analyze the website and store the result in the shared exception database before other monitors need to evaluate it. Subsequent monitors can query this pre-computed result, avoiding redundant computational analysis while maintaining comprehensive security coverage.
Solution Approach 2:
The exception database provides feedback mechanisms where security monitor results are stored and shared. When one monitor completes its analysis and determines site safety, this feedback is recorded in the database, allowing other monitors to retrieve and use this information without performing duplicate computational evaluations.
3Device complexity
If security monitors operate independently without synchronization, then system complexity is reduced, but prompt coordination fails leading to multiple user prompts
Solution Approach 1:
The exception database serves multiple functions simultaneously: it stores security evaluation results, tracks user authorization decisions, coordinates prompts across multiple monitors, and provides a synchronization mechanism. This universal component enables simple independent monitor operation while achieving coordinated prompt behavior through the shared database.
Data Source
AI summary
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to deconflict malware or content remediation are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a site redirector to identify a first request to be transmitted from a client device to a destination site identified by a uniform resource locator (URL), a site verifier to determine whether the first request indicates that a user has authorized navigation to the destination site, and a URL encoder to, in response to determining that the user has authorized the navigation to the destination site, generate a data field based the domain of the destination site, the site redirector to transmit a second request to a network security monitor, the second request to indicate to the network security monitor that the user has authorized the navigation to the destination site, the second request including the data field and the URL.