Integrated Security Workbench for Unified Vulnerability Scanning
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Solution Overview
Problem
The use of different security scanner tools by various development teams leads to inefficiencies in maintaining separate departmental infrastructures, increased resource consumption, and difficulty in enforcing uniform security compliance across teams.
Innovation Solution
Integrating multiple scanner types into a single, integrated security tool that displays security vulnerability issues in a standardized format, allowing for a unified view and compliance with enterprise guidelines.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple separate scanner tools are used by different development teams, then each team can use specialized tools for their specific security concerns, but the infrastructure maintenance cost increases and resource consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple separate scanner tools into a single integrated security workbench that can execute various scanner types (SAST, DAST, SCA, etc.) through a unified platform. This consolidation maintains the specialized scanning capabilities while reducing infrastructure complexity by eliminating the need to maintain separate departmental infrastructures for each scanner type.
Solution Approach 2:
The integrated security workbench provides universal functionality by supporting multiple scanner types and scanning methodologies within a single tool. The system can accommodate different development team requirements and security concerns while providing a common infrastructure, thereby reducing overall system complexity and resource consumption.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple separate scanner tools are used by different development teams, then each team can independently select their preferred tools, but the resource consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent consolidates multiple scanner executions into a single integrated workbench, reducing the total processing resources required. By merging the infrastructure for multiple scanner types into one unified platform, the system decreases the cumulative resource consumption that would occur if each team maintained separate infrastructures.
Solution Approach 2:
The universal workbench architecture allows the system to serve multiple development teams with different scanning requirements through a single infrastructure. This multi-functional approach eliminates redundant resource allocation and reduces overall processing resource consumption compared to having separate specialized infrastructures.
3Adaptability or versatility
If different scanner types are used across different teams, then each team can address their specific vulnerability requirements, but it becomes difficult to enforce uniform security compliance
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the output of multiple scanner types into a single standardized format within the integrated workbench. This consolidation maintains the ability to detect different vulnerability types while significantly improving compliance review ease by providing a unified view of all security findings across all teams and products.
Solution Approach 2:
The system transforms the output parameters of different scanner types into a common standardized format. By changing the representation of vulnerability data from multiple specialized formats to a unified parameter set, the system enables consistent compliance review while preserving the detection capabilities for various vulnerability types.
4Adaptability or versatility
If separate departmental infrastructures are maintained for different teams, then each team can use their preferred tools, but the monetary resources required increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple departmental infrastructures into a single shared security workbench. This merging maintains tool selection autonomy for different teams while significantly reducing monetary resource consumption by eliminating the need to fund and maintain separate infrastructures for each development team.
Solution Approach 2:
The universal workbench provides a cost-effective shared infrastructure that serves all development teams. By investing in a single multi-functional platform rather than multiple specialized infrastructures, the organization reduces overall monetary resource consumption while maintaining the flexibility for teams to use appropriate scanning tools.
Data Source
AI summary
A system includes one or more processors to transmit, to a client device, data to cause the client device to display a first interface including a plurality of software products, receive, via the first interface, a selection of a software product of the plurality of software products, wherein the software product includes software code stored in a plurality of data repositories, transmit, to the client device, data to cause the client device to display a second interface including the plurality of data repositories, scan at least one data repository of the plurality of data repositories selected via the second interface to detect one or more security vulnerabilities in a development branch corresponding to the at least one data repository, and generate, for display via the second interface, a security notification related to the one or more security vulnerabilities detected in the development branch.