3D Threat Dashboard for Cloud Security Visualization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current graphical user interfaces for cloud-based threat detection systems lack effective visualization tools to provide comprehensive insights into malicious attacks, making it difficult for administrators to identify and mitigate persistent threats in real-time.
Innovation Solution
A cloud-based threat detection system that processes emails to detect and neutralize malicious links by replacing them with safe alternatives, generating threat insight dashboards that provide visual metrics on attack exposure and prevention, allowing administrators to track and remediate threats effectively.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If traditional graphical user interfaces are used for threat detection systems, then the system structure remains simple, but the visualization capability and threat insight provision are insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from traditional flat 2D graphical user interfaces to immersive 3D virtual reality environments for threat visualization. The threat dashboard is rendered as a three-dimensional virtual space where security metrics, attack patterns, and threat intelligence are displayed spatially, allowing administrators to navigate and interact with security data in an immersive manner, thereby significantly enhancing threat insight visibility without proportionally increasing system complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a virtual reality intermediary layer between the threat detection system and the administrator. This VR environment acts as a mediator that transforms complex security data into intuitive spatial visualizations, allowing administrators to interact with threat information through natural gestures and movements rather than traditional UI elements, thus improving information visibility while managing complexity through an abstracted interaction model
2Loss of information
If comprehensive threat metrics are displayed to provide full visibility into attacks, then the information completeness improves, but the interface complexity and data processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments comprehensive threat data into distinct spatial zones and categories within the virtual reality dashboard. Different attack metrics, threat levels, and security events are organized into separate visual regions and hierarchical levels, allowing administrators to focus on specific threat aspects without being overwhelmed by the full complexity of all simultaneously displayed data, thus maintaining information completeness while managing processing complexity through structured organization
3Speed
If real-time threat detection and visualization are implemented, then the response speed improves, but the computational resource consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements periodic updates of threat metrics and dashboard elements within the virtual reality environment rather than continuous full-refresh operations. The system updates security data at optimized intervals and uses efficient rendering techniques to refresh only changed elements in the 3D space, maintaining real-time detection capabilities while reducing computational energy consumption compared to continuous full-system rendering
Data Source
AI summary
Dashboards for displaying threat insight information are provided herein, as well as systems and methods for generating the same. According to some embodiments, methods for providing a threat dashboard include locating metrics regarding a malicious attack against a targeted resource; the metrics indicating instances where users were exposed to the malicious attack or instances where a cloud-based threat detection system prevented the user from being exposed to the malicious attack. The method may also include rendering a threat dashboard for a web browser application of a client device, where the threat dashboard includes the located metrics.