Security Posture Evaluation System for Endpoint Devices
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing security compliance products and services fail to measure and assess internal security threats within an organization, focusing primarily on external threats and lacking comprehensive evaluation of the overall security posture of individual computing systems.
Innovation Solution
A method and system for evaluating the security posture of a computer system by receiving and analyzing data from security components, assigning scores, and updating overall security scores, which includes receiving data representing events, determining scores and weighting factors, and providing updated scores to an analysis component, enabling the identification of malicious or suspicious activities.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If endpoint protection agents are installed to protect against external threats, then protection against known and unknown outside threats is improved, but the ability to measure and assess internal security threats deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the security evaluation function into separate components: endpoint protection agents continue to handle external threat protection, while a new security posture evaluation system with scoring mechanisms assesses internal security threats. This segmentation allows each component to specialize in its respective function without interference.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a security posture evaluation system as an intermediary layer between existing endpoint protection agents and organizational security assessment. This intermediary collects data from multiple sources, assigns scores to security events, and provides comprehensive security posture measurements without disrupting the existing external threat protection capabilities.
2Reliability
If sophisticated security compliance products are deployed to anticipate inbound threats, then protection against external attacks is improved, but measurement of overall security posture deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a security posture evaluation system that performs multiple functions: it monitors security events, assigns scores to individual events, aggregates scores into overall security posture measurements, and provides both internal and external threat assessment capabilities in a single unified system.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent merges the functions of threat protection and security posture measurement into an integrated system. The security posture evaluation system combines data from endpoint protection agents with additional security events to provide comprehensive measurements that include both external and internal threat assessments.
3Measurement precision
If security monitoring is expanded to assess internal threats, then comprehensive security posture evaluation is improved, but system complexity deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent simplifies complex security assessment by transforming multiple security parameters into a standardized scoring system. Individual security events are assigned numerical scores and weighting factors, which are then aggregated into overall security posture measurements. This parameter transformation converts complex qualitative security assessments into quantifiable metrics that are easier to analyze and compare.
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AI summary
A mechanism for evaluating the security posture of a computer system is described. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving data representing an event associated with a security component operating in an endpoint device, analyzing the received data to determine a score to assign to the event and a weighting factor to apply to the assigned score, updating a security component score of the security component with the assigned weighted score for the event, updating an overall security score for the endpoint device with the updated security component score, and providing the updated overall security score to an analysis component.