Token-Based Security Session Validation System
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current security systems face inefficiencies in making access decisions due to the complexity of processing individual attributes for access control, which can lead to slow and inefficient responses, especially when alarms are triggered or changes occur in user, device, or network environments.
Innovation Solution
A token-based system that stores and processes token-based rules and tokens, including session tokens, to facilitate faster access control decisions by abstracting and condensing attributes into metadata, enabling quicker responses to alarms and environmental changes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If individual attributes are processed for access control decisions, then comprehensive security validation is achieved, but response time increases and efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-processing attributes into tokens and pre-establishing access rules before actual access decisions are needed. Tokens encapsulate validated attribute information that can be quickly referenced during access control operations, eliminating the need to re-process individual attributes in real-time.
Solution Approach 2:
Tokens serve as intermediaries between raw attributes and access control decisions. Instead of directly processing individual attributes during access validation, the system uses tokens as intermediary representations that already contain the essential validated information, significantly reducing processing time while maintaining security validation comprehensiveness.
2Measurement precision
If multiple attributes are validated for access control, then security accuracy is improved, but processing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges multiple individual attributes into consolidated tokens that represent combined validation results. By combining multiple attribute validations into single token objects, the system reduces processing complexity while maintaining the accuracy benefits of validating multiple attributes, as the tokens encapsulate all necessary validation information in a unified structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates simplified copies of complex attribute sets in the form of tokens. These token copies contain the essential validated information from multiple attributes but in a condensed format that is easier to process during access control decisions, reducing computational complexity while preserving security validation accuracy.
3Speed
If real-time alarm responses are implemented, then security responsiveness is improved, but system resource consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts and isolates critical alarm-related information into separate tokens that can be independently processed. By extracting alarm responses from the general attribute processing flow and handling them as discrete token validations, the system achieves fast real-time responses to security alarms while minimizing overall resource consumption by only processing relevant alarm tokens rather than all attributes continuously.
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AI summary
According to one embodiment, an apparatus may store a plurality of token-based rules. A token-based rule may facilitate access to a resource. The apparatus may further store a plurality of tokens. The plurality of tokens may include a session token associated with access to the resource by a device. The apparatus may receive a first token indicating that an alarm associated with the device has been triggered. The apparatus may determine, based at least in part upon at least one token-based rule from the plurality of token-based rules, that access to the resource should be terminated in response to receiving the first token and terminate the session token in response to the determination that access to the resource should be terminated.