Automated Security Policy Generation via Threat Visualization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current network security management systems are inefficient in responding to cyber threats due to manual, labor-intensive processes for configuring policies to mitigate and resolve network attacks, and lack centralized threat visualization and automated control of security devices.
Innovation Solution
An integrated security management system that provides centralized threat visualization and automated control of security devices, featuring a sophisticated user interface, threat data aggregation, and automated policy generation and deployment, enabling administrators to interact with graphical representations of threats to configure and update security policies across the network.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If manual processes are used to configure security policies, then administrators can control security devices, but the process becomes labor-intensive and inefficient
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables automated self-service through the policy generation module that automatically creates security policies based on aggregated threat data, eliminating the need for manual administrator intervention in policy creation and deployment
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual mechanical configuration processes with automated electronic systems including threat data aggregation, automated policy generation, and electronic policy deployment across security devices
2Loss of information
If centralized threat visualization is implemented, then administrators can monitor threats in real-time, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges multiple security devices and their threat data into a single centralized management interface, allowing administrators to monitor and control all security threats from one unified location without managing each device separately
Solution Approach 2:
The centralized management system acts as an intermediary between distributed security devices and administrators, aggregating threat data from multiple sources and presenting unified visualizations while managing the complexity internally
3Speed
If automated policy generation is used, then security response speed improves, but policy accuracy may be compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The system incorporates feedback mechanisms where the policy generation module uses aggregated threat data to automatically adjust and refine security policies, ensuring accuracy while maintaining rapid automated deployment capabilities
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary threat analysis and policy generation based on aggregated data before deployment, allowing automated creation of accurate policies based on pre-analyzed threat patterns and characteristics
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AI summary
Techniques are described for taking direct actions, such as selectively blocking or allowing traffic and applications, while monitoring events from a graphical representation of threats. As such, the administrator in an enterprise interacts with the graphical representation of threats rendered by the security management system to automatically invoke a policy/rule module of the security management system to configure and update security policies for the security devices deployed throughout the computer networks of the enterprise. An administrator may, for example, interact with the representation of threats rendered by the threat control module based on the data aggregated from the distributed security devices and, responsive to the interaction, the security management system may identify a relevant set of the security devices, automatically construct security policies having ordered rules within the policies for the identified set of security devices, and automatically communicate and install the policies in the identified set of security devices.