Unified Security Interface for IT Infrastructure Risk Assessment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current IT infrastructure management systems lack effective tools for quickly assessing and evaluating the quality of security control coverage and the current security state across various categories, making it difficult for users to identify vulnerabilities and compliance issues in a comprehensive and timely manner.
Innovation Solution
The development of user interfaces and methods that allow users to view, filter, and evaluate security control coverage using security configuration management, vulnerability management, and event logging tools, with features like a two-dimensional vulnerability risk matrix, enabling users to visualize and manage security data from multiple sources in a unified and dynamic interface.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If multiple security control tools are used to monitor and secure IT assets, then security coverage and reliability are improved, but device complexity and difficulty of managing security data increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines data from multiple security control tools (vulnerability management, security configuration management, event logging) into a single unified interface. This merging allows users to view and manage security data from all tools in one place, reducing the complexity of managing multiple separate tools while maintaining comprehensive security coverage.
Solution Approach 2:
The unified interface serves multiple functions: it displays vulnerability data, security configuration status, event logs, and provides filtering and evaluation capabilities. This multi-functional design eliminates the need for separate tools for each security monitoring task, simplifying the overall system while improving reliability through comprehensive coverage.
2Measurement precision
If comprehensive security monitoring of all IT assets is implemented, then security state evaluation accuracy is improved, but loss of time for data processing and analysis increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-processes and organizes security data from multiple tools before presentation, including filtering and categorization capabilities. This preliminary action prepares data in advance for rapid analysis, maintaining high evaluation accuracy while reducing the time users need to spend on data processing.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a two-dimensional vulnerability risk matrix that visualizes security data across multiple dimensions (severity, exploitability, etc.). This dimensional transformation allows comprehensive security evaluation through visual patterns rather than detailed data analysis, significantly reducing analysis time while maintaining precision.
3Loss of information
If detailed security data from multiple sources is collected, then completeness of security assessment is improved, but device complexity and data processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The unified interface merges data from vulnerability management tools, security configuration management tools, and event logging tools into a single coherent view. This combination maintains complete security assessment information while simplifying the processing architecture by providing a centralized access point rather than multiple separate processing systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The unified interface acts as an intermediary layer between multiple security control tools and users. It consolidates complex data from various sources and presents it in a standardized, manageable format, reducing the complexity burden on both the data processing system and the users while maintaining information completeness.
4Measurement precision
If users manually analyze security data from multiple tools, then identification of security gaps is possible, but productivity and speed of security assessment decrease
Solution Approach 1:
The two-dimensional vulnerability risk matrix transforms complex security data into visual patterns that can be quickly interpreted. This visual dimension allows users to identify security vulnerabilities and assess risks at a glance rather than through manual data analysis, significantly improving productivity while maintaining accurate identification of security gaps.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses color-coded visual indicators in the vulnerability risk matrix to represent different security states and risk levels. This visual encoding allows rapid identification of security issues through color patterns rather than detailed data examination, enhancing both speed and accuracy of security assessment.
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed herein are representative embodiments of methods, apparatus, and systems for processing and managing information from one or more security control tools, such as a security configuration management tool, a vulnerability management tool, an event logging tool, or other IT infrastructure security or monitoring tool that is used to monitor, secure, and/or control assets in an IT infrastructure. For example, in some embodiments, user interfaces are disclosed that allow a user to quickly view, filter, and evaluate the degree of security control coverage in selected assets of an enterprise. In further embodiments, user interfaces are disclosed that allow a user to view and evaluate the current security state for selected assets in across a variety of categories and, in some cases, as guided by a two-dimensional vulnerability risk matrix.