Security Management System Prioritizing Vulnerability Remediation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Complex clustered application environments face overwhelming numbers of computer security issues, making it difficult for users to prioritize and efficiently remediate them.
Innovation Solution
A security management system that collects, categorizes, and prioritizes security events based on type and risk level, providing a graphical user interface for users to view and remediate issues within dynamically tailored recommendation categories.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If monitoring services identify all potential security issues in clustered application environments, then security coverage is improved, but the volume of security issues overwhelms users making remediation difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the overwhelming volume of security issues into organized groups based on multiple dimensions: severity levels (critical, high, medium, low), issue types (vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, compliance violations), and affected components (containers, hosts, networks). This segmentation transforms the undifferentiated mass of security issues into manageable, categorized lists that users can systematically address.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies local quality by providing customized security issue presentations tailored to different user roles, environments, and preferences. Each user receives a personalized view of security issues relevant to their responsibilities, with customized filtering and prioritization based on their specific context, rather than a generic overwhelming list for all users.
2Reliability
If users attempt to address all security issues comprehensively, then security remediation completeness is improved, but time and resource consumption increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary actions by automatically prioritizing security issues before presentation to users. The system pre-calculates priority scores based on severity, exploitability, affected assets, and other factors, and pre-organizes issues into actionable groups with suggested remediation steps. This preliminary processing eliminates the need for users to spend time analyzing and prioritizing issues themselves.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements feedback mechanisms that track remediation progress and dynamically adjust priority recommendations. As users address security issues, the system provides feedback on completion status and updates priority rankings of remaining issues based on changed conditions, enabling adaptive remediation planning that optimizes time utilization.
3Loss of information
If security issues are presented without prioritization, then information completeness is improved, but user decision-making complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent adds multiple prioritization dimensions to the presentation of security issues, including severity levels, priority scores, temporal urgency, and resource impact. By organizing issues along these additional dimensions rather than presenting them as a flat undifferentiated list, the system maintains information completeness while reducing decision-making complexity through structured multi-dimensional categorization.
Data Source
AI summary
Techniques for categorizing and prioritizing security issues is disclosed. A security management system is implemented to receive security events describing potential security issues from clients. The security events contain attributes describing the security issue, affected resources, and a risk score defining a level of security risk associated with the event. The security events may be aggregated into a set of recommendation categories based on the type of security issue to be remedied. Aggregated risk scores may be computed for each of the recommendation categories. The security management system causes displaying of a graphical user interface to display information representing the set of recommendation categories. User input may be received selecting a particular recommendation category. In response to selecting the particular recommendation category, recommendation instruction options are displayed for remedying the events within the particular recommendation category.