Virtual Policy Control Router for Compliance Navigation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Organizations face challenges in gaining visibility and managing compliance with multiple regulatory mandates across different functional silos, as existing systems are typically constrained within these silos and often conflict with each other, leading to operational inefficiencies and confusion.
Innovation Solution
A virtual policy control router is created by aggregating multiple policy control repositories, allowing users to access and navigate relevant control elements for establishing policy compliance initiatives, with web service agents communicating policy information and providing access control security, thereby reducing redundant reporting across systems.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If multiple policy control repositories are maintained in separate functional silos, then each repository can be managed independently with specialized controls, but visibility and coordination across compliance activities become difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple separate policy control repositories into a unified virtual router that aggregates control elements from different functional silos (IT, finance, legal, operations). This consolidation provides centralized visibility and coordination while maintaining the underlying independence of each repository through virtualization rather than physical integration.
2Adaptability or versatility
If external regulations are enforced through multiple separate systems, then each regulatory requirement can be addressed specifically, but conflicts and contradictions between regulations cause confusion and operational inefficiencies
Solution Approach 1:
The virtual policy control router acts as an intermediary layer between multiple regulatory requirements and the organization's control elements. It mediates conflicts between regulations by providing a unified interface that reconciles contradictory requirements and coordinates compliance activities across different functional areas, reducing confusion and operational inefficiencies.
3Reliability
If control elements are distributed across multiple repositories, then each repository can maintain its native security model and access controls, but accessing and navigating relevant controls becomes challenging
Solution Approach 1:
The virtual policy control router provides universal access to control elements from multiple repositories through a single navigable interface. It maintains compatibility with each repository's native security model while providing unified access controls and authentication, allowing users to access relevant controls regardless of their original repository location through one standardized interface.
4Loss of information
If reporting is generated from multiple separate systems, then each system can report on its specific compliance area, but redundant reporting activity increases operational overhead
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges reporting functions from multiple separate compliance systems into a unified reporting mechanism through the virtual router. By aggregating control elements and their status information in one place, the system eliminates redundant reporting activities and generates comprehensive compliance reports that cover multiple regulatory areas simultaneously, improving reporting efficiency while maintaining complete compliance information.
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AI summary
A method, apparatus and computer-usable medium for a virtual policy control router, comprising applicable control elements relating to one or more external or internal policies. Two or more policy control repositories are aggregated to create a virtual policy control router, accessible and navigable by users to provide relevant and applicable control elements for establishing policy compliance initiatives. One or more agents are implemented as a web service comprising a services oriented architecture (SOA) to access policy control elements in their native repositories. The web service agent communicates policy control information to the virtual policy control router, contingent upon each control repository's existing security model and access controls. As policy control information is received from each web service agent, it is relationally associated with predetermined users and/or initiatives by the virtual policy control router.