Smart Contract Countermeasures for Legally Authorized Cyber Response
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional methods for responding to malicious actions by business entities are slow, costly, and prone to errors, requiring significant manual effort and legal procedures, which can delay the response to cyber threats and increase complexity.
Innovation Solution
Utilizing smart contracts to automate the execution of authorized countermeasures against malicious actors, leveraging blockchain technology for secure, transparent, and efficient communication and action between business entities and official agencies.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional manual methods are used to respond to malicious actions, then legal procedures and authorization can be properly followed, but the response time is slow and the process is complex
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-establishing smart contracts with official agencies before malicious events occur. These contracts contain pre-negotiated countermeasures and authorization terms, so when a malicious event is detected, the system can immediately execute the pre-agreed countermeasures without delay for legal procedures or manual authorization.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables self-service by allowing business entities to autonomously execute countermeasures through automated smart contracts. The machine learning model automatically detects malicious actions, triggers the appropriate countermeasures defined in the smart contract, and executes them without requiring manual human intervention or complex legal procedures, thus reducing response time while maintaining reliability through pre-established contractual frameworks.
2Reliability
If manual procedures are used for countermeasure execution, then proper authorization can be obtained, but the process requires significant manual effort and paperwork
Solution Approach 1:
The system replaces the mechanical system of manual paperwork and physical authorization processes with automated digital smart contracts on a blockchain. The smart contracts encode authorization terms and countermeasure execution logic, automatically verifying and executing authorized actions without manual paperwork, thus reducing process complexity while maintaining authorization validity through cryptographic verification.
3Reliability
If traditional cooperation methods are used between business entities and official agencies, then legal frameworks can be followed, but the communication and action channels are slow and costly
Solution Approach 1:
The system introduces smart contracts as an intermediary between business entities and official agencies. These smart contracts serve as a automated mediator that facilitates communication and execution of countermeasures, replacing slow traditional communication channels. The intermediary automatically verifies malicious actions through machine learning models and executes pre-negotiated countermeasures, improving response efficiency while maintaining legal framework compliance through the structured contract terms.
4Productivity
If automated smart contracts are used to execute countermeasures, then response time is reduced and efficiency is improved, but the system requires sophisticated technology infrastructure
Solution Approach 1:
The system achieves universality by creating a multi-functional smart contract platform that handles multiple malicious event types, various countermeasure execution methods, and different official agency collaborations through a single integrated framework. This universal platform reduces the need for separate specialized systems for different scenarios, thereby improving response efficiency across diverse situations while managing technology infrastructure complexity through consolidation.
Data Source
AI summary
A system for a business entity is disclosed that is configured to execute an authorized countermeasure against a malicious actor via a smart contract in response to the system determining that the malicious actor has performed a malicious action. The system determines that a smart contract established between the business entity and an official agency defines an authorized countermeasure to be performed in the event of the malicious action. The system also determines that the malicious actor has performed the malicious action on the business entity. In response to the determination that the malicious actor has performed the malicious action, the system executes the authorized countermeasure with respect to the malicious actor, which may include one or more of a ransomware attack, a malware distribution, a beacon, a Distributed Denial of Service attack, a destruction of data, an encryption of data, a tokenization of data, or a scrambling of data.