Situational Intelligence Platform for Unified Security Risk Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems lack an integrated solution for effectively managing and responding to blended risks and threats across diverse assets and systems within an enterprise, including physical and IT security, which are often siloed and difficult to monitor and remediate.
Innovation Solution
A method and apparatus that provides role-based, rules-driven access enforcement with situational awareness and video surveillance, enabling comprehensive risk assessment and auto-remediation across IT, physical, and industrial systems from a single dashboard, correlating seemingly innocuous events to detect real threats and automate responses.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If multiple separate security systems are used for different assets and systems, then each system can be specialized and reliable, but the overall system complexity increases and integrated risk management becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple separate security systems (physical security, cyber security, operational technology security) into a single integrated situational awareness platform. This platform aggregates data from diverse sources including access control systems, video surveillance, intrusion detection, and cyber security tools, presenting a unified view of enterprise-wide risks while maintaining the specialized functionality of individual systems through modular architecture
Solution Approach 2:
The situational awareness platform serves multiple functions simultaneously: it monitors physical security events, analyzes cyber threats, correlates data across different security domains, provides risk assessment, and enables coordinated response actions. This multi-functional approach allows a single system to handle diverse security requirements without requiring separate specialized systems for each function
2Loss of information
If comprehensive monitoring of all assets and systems is implemented, then complete risk visibility is achieved, but the difficulty of detecting and measuring threats increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary situational awareness platform that sits between multiple security systems and analysts. This platform acts as a mediator that collects, normalizes, and correlates data from various security sources, transforming raw data into meaningful risk indicators and threat assessments that are easier to detect and measure while maintaining comprehensive visibility across all assets and systems
3Adaptability or versatility
If manual risk assessment and response procedures are used, then flexibility in handling diverse threats is maintained, but the response time and productivity decrease
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic risk assessment capabilities that automatically adjust monitoring levels, alert thresholds, and response protocols based on real-time threat conditions. The system dynamically correlates events across different security domains and automatically escalates responses based on the severity and nature of detected threats, maintaining flexibility while improving response efficiency through adaptive automation
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AI summary
A method and apparatus is provided that includes techniques for providing complete solutions for role-based, rules-driven access enforcement, the techniques including situational awareness and video surveillance. An embodiment addresses blended risk assessment and security across logical systems, IT applications, databases, and physical systems from a single analytic dashboard, with auto-remediation capabilities. Further, an embodiment provides capability and functionality for co-relating seemingly innocent events and activities to detect real threats and risks, while providing powerful alerting and automated remedial action strategies for decisive action.