Security Environment Query Orchestration Across Heterogeneous Tools
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Solution Overview
Problem
Managing and monitoring information technology security environments in complex, heterogeneous computing environments is challenging due to variations in monitoring tools, data formats, and network dynamics, leading to the need for significant customization and inconsistent documentation of security policies.
Innovation Solution
A system that generates a subject index based on a survey of a content system, using a query engine to match questions with data sources, employ query models to generate prompts, and rank answers for correctness, leveraging large language models to improve the accuracy and efficiency of security information management.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If monitoring tools are deployed in heterogeneous computing environments, then security information can be collected, but variations in data formats and tool differences require significant customization
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a natural language processing intermediary that translates between diverse monitoring tool data formats and a unified security analysis framework. This mediator layer processes queries in natural language and automatically adapts to different data sources without requiring customization of each individual tool, thereby resolving the contradiction between adaptability and complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements a universal natural language interface that can query multiple heterogeneous monitoring tools and security systems through a single standardized method. This multi-functional approach allows the same interface to work across different data formats and tool types, eliminating the need for tool-specific customization while maintaining broad compatibility.
2Reliability
If security monitoring is expanded to cover complex networks and distributed services, then security coverage is improved, but managing and monitoring infrastructure access becomes increasingly complex
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces traditional mechanical approaches to security monitoring (manual configuration, structured queries, rigid data formats) with an intelligent natural language processing system. This substitution allows the system to automatically understand and query complex distributed services without requiring manual setup or complex management interfaces, thereby expanding security coverage while reducing management complexity.
3Stability of the object's composition
If formal documentation of security policies is maintained, then policy consistency is improved, but informal or absent policies remain undocumented
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables self-service discovery of security policies by automatically analyzing monitoring data, logs, and system behavior to infer both formal and informal security policies. This self-documenting capability ensures that even unwritten or informal policies are captured and made available for consistent application, eliminating the loss of undocumented security information.
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AI summary
Embodiments are directed to surveying security environments. A subject index that includes entries may be generated based on a survey of a content system. A question of a client may be compared to entries in the subject index. A prompt associated with the content system may be generated based on the entries, the data sources, or the question. Query models may be employed to obtain data associated with the question from the data sources. Other prompts may be generated based on the data from the data sources to generate candidate answers based on the question and the data from the data sources. An evaluation prompt that includes the candidate answers and the question may be generated to rank the candidate answers for correctness. Answers may be determined based on the ranking of the candidate questions such that top ranked candidate answers are provided to the client.