Selective Audit Log Transmission for Remote Work Privacy
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Solution Overview
Problem
The increasing trend of remote work has created a demand for acquiring work-related audit logs from various locations, including remote workplaces and home offices, which existing audit log systems are not adequately equipped to handle effectively, especially in ensuring privacy and security.
Innovation Solution
An image processing apparatus that communicates with a server via a network, featuring a storage unit for logs, a designation unit to allow log acquisition for specific application functions, and a transmission unit to selectively transmit logs to the server, ensuring that only designated logs are shared, thereby maintaining privacy and security.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If all logs from printing apparatuses are transmitted to the server for audit purposes, then security monitoring capability is improved, but user privacy protection deteriorates due to transmission of personal use logs
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments logs by application function type, separating work-related application logs from personal use logs. The log transmission is divided into two categories: logs from designated work applications are transmitted to the server for security monitoring, while logs from non-designated personal applications are excluded from transmission, thus protecting user privacy.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies different quality characteristics to different log types. Work-related logs from designated applications are marked with transmission permission attributes and sent to the server, while personal logs from non-designated applications are marked with non-transmission attributes and retained locally, creating differentiated handling based on log origin and purpose.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If selective log transmission based on application function is implemented, then user privacy is protected, but audit log completeness for remote work monitoring deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary designation of application functions before log transmission occurs. Administrators pre-configure which applications are work-related and should have their logs transmitted. This preliminary classification ensures that when logs are generated, the system already knows which ones to send, maintaining audit completeness for relevant work activities without capturing unnecessary personal logs.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides feedback mechanisms allowing administrators to review and adjust which application functions are designated for log transmission. This feedback loop ensures that the selective transmission configuration accurately reflects actual work requirements, maintaining audit log completeness while protecting privacy.
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AI summary
An image processing apparatus that communicates with a server via a network, the image processing apparatuses being configured to use one or more application functions, the image processing apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store an audit log and the one or more application functions in association with each other, a designation unit configured to designate the one or more application functions as an application function for which acquisition of a log by the server is allowed, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the audit log associated with the one or more application functions designated by the designation unit to the server.