Visual Policy Configuration for Platform Security
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing information handling systems face challenges in implementing dynamic and context-aware security policies across large IT environments, as current methods lack organized and connected user interfaces and enforcement mechanisms for BIOS-level settings and triggers.
Innovation Solution
A platform security operation system that enables configuration of dynamic security policies through visual block-level programming, using BIOS interpretation and enforcement, with scripting logic deployable in low-resource environments, supporting flexible cause-effect and incident-response policies, and maintaining persistence in non-volatile memory.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If visual block-level programming is used for security policy configuration, then ease of operation is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
A visual policy configuration interface acts as an intermediary between users and the complex BIOS security enforcement system. This interface translates user-friendly visual block-level programming into the underlying complex security policies, shielding users from complexity while maintaining operational ease.
Solution Approach 2:
The security policy configuration is segmented into discrete, manageable blocks that can be visually arranged and configured. Each block represents a specific security function or condition, allowing users to build complex policies through simple composition of modular elements rather than dealing with monolithic complexity.
2Reliability
If BIOS-level security enforcement is implemented, then reliability is improved, but ease of operation worsens
Solution Approach 1:
The visual configuration interface serves as a mediator that bridges the gap between user-friendly operations and BIOS-level enforcement. Users interact with simple visual blocks while the system automatically handles the complex BIOS integration, achieving both ease of operation and reliable enforcement.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs self-service by automatically translating visual block-level configurations into BIOS-level security policies without requiring users to manually configure low-level settings. The system handles the complexity of BIOS integration autonomously while users simply arrange visual blocks.
3Productivity
If scripting logic is deployed to low-resource environments, then productivity is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The complex scripting logic is extracted from the low-resource BIOS environment and placed in a richer host environment for configuration and management. Only the essential, optimized scripting capabilities are deployed to the BIOS, reducing the complexity burden on the low-resource system while maintaining deployment productivity.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of implementing full scripting capabilities in the resource-constrained BIOS, a simplified copy or representation of scripting logic is deployed that provides essential functionality without the overhead of the complete scripting infrastructure, balancing productivity with complexity constraints.
Data Source
AI summary
A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for performing a platform security operation, comprising: presenting a platform security user interface, the platform security user interface including a plurality of security blocks, each of the plurality of security blocks corresponding to a particular security policy function configuring a security policy via the platform security user interface, the configuring comprising combining a set of the security blocks according to a desired security function; converting the set of security blocks to information representing the security policy; and, deploying the security policy to an information handling system.