Single-Chip Broker Entity Integrating Firewall and Intrusion Detection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing e-commerce transaction systems face challenges in providing secure, high-speed, and open standards-based financial transactions due to security gaps and limitations in existing solutions, such as Web-based logging and filtering, which do not adequately integrate firewalls, VPNs, intrusion detection, and tamper-resistant audit capabilities over IP networks.
Innovation Solution
A single-chip solution integrating a high-speed embedded firewall, message-processing router, secure session protocol, transport management, and integrated intrusion detection, along with self-repairing transactional mesh and hardware-based cryptographic operations, to create a secure end-to-end financial transaction environment.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If multiple security features (firewall, VPN, intrusion detection, audit capabilities) are integrated into a single-chip format, then security reliability and transaction speed are improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple security features including firewall, VPN, intrusion detection, and audit capabilities into a single integrated chip architecture. This merging approach improves security reliability by ensuring coordinated operation of all security components while maintaining a unified security policy enforcement mechanism across the entire system.
Solution Approach 2:
The single-chip format provides multi-functional security capabilities that can handle various security tasks (filtering, encryption, intrusion detection, auditing) simultaneously. This universal design allows the system to provide comprehensive security protection across multiple protocol layers and transaction types without requiring separate dedicated hardware for each function.
2Productivity
If a single-chip format is used to integrate multiple security features, then transaction speed and efficiency are improved, but manufacturing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
By merging all security processing functions into a single chip, the system eliminates the overhead of inter-component communication and data transfer that would exist in distributed architectures. This integration directly improves transaction speed by processing security operations in-place at wire speed, while the unified manufacturing approach reduces assembly complexity compared to integrating multiple separate components.
3Reliability
If sophisticated multi-level secure streams are processed through application objects running inside the broker entity, then security capability is improved, but processing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces application objects that run inside the broker entity as intermediary components. These objects serve as mediators between incoming secure streams and the underlying security mechanisms, providing sophisticated multi-level security processing while abstracting the complexity from the overall system architecture. The application objects can be dynamically loaded and configured without affecting the core broker functionality.
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AI summary
A method and apparatus for a broker entity is provided. A high-speed embedded firewall, a message-processing router, secure session protocol, transport management, and integrated intrusion detection is provided in a single-chip format.