Universal Security Services Abstraction Layer for Scalable Integration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current security services for online platforms lack scalability, reusability, and flexibility due to point-to-point connections, leading to performance limitations, increased management complexity, and costs, as each security service requires custom connectors and replication for each application and partner service.
Innovation Solution
A universal security services manager provides an abstraction layer with a composable and scalable architecture, utilizing APIs and microservices to enable modular, reusable connections between security services and applications, distributing processing power and supporting multiple protocols and technologies like SCIM, REST, and LDAP.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If point-to-point connections are used for each security service to each application, then direct integration is achieved, but scalability and reusability deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an abstraction layer as an intermediary component between security services and applications. This abstraction layer provides standardized interfaces and protocols that enable multiple security services to connect to multiple applications without requiring custom point-to-point integrations. The intermediary translates and routes communications between different security services and applications, achieving both direct integration reliability and scalable reusability.
Solution Approach 2:
The abstraction layer implements universal interfaces and protocols that can be used across multiple security services and applications. Instead of creating custom connectors for each service-application pair, the system provides a set of reusable standardized interfaces that work universally, allowing the same security service to integrate with multiple applications and multiple security services to integrate with the same application using the same interface standards.
2Adaptability or versatility
If custom connectors are created for each security service and application combination, then specific integration requirements are met, but device complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The abstraction layer provides universal interfaces and protocols that can satisfy multiple specific integration requirements through a single standardized implementation. Rather than creating custom connectors for each security service-application combination, the system offers a set of reusable standardized interfaces that can be configured to meet different integration needs, significantly reducing the number of custom connectors required and lowering overall system complexity and cost.
Solution Approach 2:
The abstraction layer implements dynamic configuration capabilities that allow the standardized interfaces to adapt to different integration scenarios without requiring custom code. The system can dynamically route communications, transform protocols, and configure connections based on the specific requirements of each integration scenario, providing the flexibility of custom connectors with the simplicity of standardized interfaces.
3Productivity
If multiple security service servers are added to distribute load, then performance capacity increases, but management complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The abstraction layer acts as a mediator that simplifies the management of multiple security service servers. It provides a unified interface for load distribution, session management, and coordination between multiple servers. The abstraction layer handles the complexity of managing multiple servers transparently, allowing the system to scale performance capacity while maintaining manageable complexity through centralized coordination and standardized protocols.
Data Source
AI summary
A method for providing interoperability between a plurality of security services and target applications by an interoperability service. The method includes receiving a request from one of the plurality of security services to perform a task on a target application, preparing a unified data model for interaction with the target application, determining and organizing data connections to perform the task on the target application, generating a set of requests using the unified data model based on the task and utilizing business logic of the interoperability service for the data connections with the target application, transforming the set of requests into commands and data structures specific to the target application, and sending the set of requests on respective data connections with the target application.