Threat Exposure Management System for Dynamic Security Prioritization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing cyber security systems struggle to maintain awareness of updates in mitigations, telemetry data, and detection logics, and prioritize actions based on threat exposure to the defended environment's security posture.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method and system that stores threat information and organizational threat profiles, generates baseline exposure scores, weights them based on organizational profiles, and determines defense surface change commands to prioritize and manage cyber security operations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional cyber security monitoring systems are used, then basic threat detection is possible, but the systems cannot maintain awareness of updates in mitigations, telemetry data, and detection logics, and cannot prioritize actions based on threat exposure
Solution Approach 1:
The system continuously monitors the defense surface and updates threat exposure scores based on new telemetry data, mitigation updates, and detection logic changes. This feedback loop ensures the system maintains current awareness of security posture and automatically re-prioritizes threats based on updated information, resolving the contradiction between reliable situational awareness and adaptability to updates
Solution Approach 2:
The threat exposure scoring system dynamically adjusts priorities based on changing threat landscapes, organizational profiles, and defense surface characteristics. Rather than static monitoring, the system continuously recalculates exposure scores as new information becomes available, enabling both reliable current-state awareness and adaptability to ongoing updates
2Reliability
If comprehensive threat monitoring is implemented, then complete security coverage is achieved, but the complexity of managing and prioritizing multiple threats increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The system transforms complex multi-dimensional threat data into simplified priority metrics through exposure scoring. By changing parameters from raw threat data to normalized scores weighted by organizational profiles and defense surface characteristics, the system maintains comprehensive monitoring while reducing management complexity through automated prioritization
Solution Approach 2:
The monitoring system segments the overall security posture into discrete defense surface components, each with its own threat exposure score. This segmentation allows comprehensive coverage to be broken down into manageable units that can be independently analyzed and prioritized, reducing overall management complexity while maintaining complete security coverage
3Measurement precision
If manual threat prioritization is performed, then detailed analysis is possible, but the speed and efficiency of security operations deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The system replaces manual mechanical prioritization processes with automated computational algorithms that calculate threat exposure scores. This substitution maintains precise threat analysis through systematic evaluation of multiple factors while dramatically increasing security operation speed by eliminating manual intervention in the prioritization process
Solution Approach 2:
The threat prioritization system performs self-service by automatically analyzing threats, calculating exposure scores, and generating prioritized action recommendations without requiring manual analyst intervention. This maintains precise analysis through automated algorithms while maximizing productivity by enabling rapid, continuous prioritization of security operations
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AI summary
Aspects of the subject technology relate to determining a defense surface change command to be applied to a defense surface. An organizational threat profile is stored and a baseline exposure score for threats is generated. The baseline exposure score is weighted based on at least the organizational threat profile to generate a prioritized exposure score. A defense surface change command is generated based on at least the prioritized exposure score, which is transmitted to hardware or software components, and an updated prioritized exposure score for the one or more hardware or software components is generated.