Blockchain WAAP Policy Sync for API Safety Grading
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing integrated web security solutions lack comprehensive protection for APIs, leading to increased security incidents and the need for cost-effective, integrated web security solutions that incorporate API protection, bot mitigation, and DDoS defense, while ensuring compliance with OWASP API security standards.
Innovation Solution
A blockchain-based security system that manages API and WAAP levels through distributed synchronization and integrity guarantee technologies, enabling dynamic management of API and WAAP policies, including vulnerability testing and grading, and self-upgrades to ensure secure API use.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If integrated web security solutions include API protection, bot mitigation, and DDoS defense functions, then security coverage is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple security functions (WAAP, API protection, bot mitigation, DDoS defense) into a single integrated security system. The security apparatus unifiedly manages web application security, API security, bot attacks, and denial of service protection through integrated detection and response mechanisms, reducing the need for separate security systems while maintaining comprehensive coverage.
Solution Approach 2:
The security apparatus is designed as a multi-functional platform that can perform various security functions simultaneously. It includes universal detection modules for different attack types, unified policy management for diverse security rules, and integrated response capabilities that can address WAAP, API, bot, and DDoS threats through a single system architecture.
2Reliability
If blockchain technology is integrated into WAAP for API management and security, then trust and integrity are improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces blockchain as an intermediary layer between the WAAP system and API management. The blockchain serves as a trusted intermediary that stores API lifecycle information, authentication credentials, and security policies in a decentralized manner. This intermediary provides immutable records and distributed trust without requiring direct complex interactions between all system components.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces traditional centralized database mechanisms with blockchain's distributed ledger technology for storing and verifying API management data. Instead of relying on a single centralized authority, the system uses blockchain's cryptographic hashing, consensus mechanisms, and distributed storage to ensure data integrity and trust in API lifecycle management, authentication, and security policy enforcement.
3Reliability
If API safety grading and vulnerability testing are performed continuously, then security reliability is improved, but processing time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary security measures by performing vulnerability testing and safety grading before API deployment and during development. The system includes pre-deployment security checks, runtime anomaly detection, and proactive vulnerability scanning that identify and mitigate security issues before they can affect production systems, reducing the need for time-consuming post-incident analysis.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent ensures continuous security monitoring and grading through always-on vulnerability scanning, real-time API traffic analysis, and continuous policy enforcement. The security system operates continuously without interrupting normal API operations, using background processing and asynchronous monitoring to maintain security reliability while minimizing impact on processing time through non-blocking security checks.
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AI summary
Disclosed is a blockchain-based security method that is performed by an integrated web security solution (web application and API protection, WAAP) and using WAAP and application programming interface (API) level management. The blockchain-based security method may comprise: receiving an API safety grade check request from the blockchain under a session establishment with the blockchain, wherein, in the checking of the API safety grade, a security level for vulnerability of the API is checked by itself in management API data of the WAAP with a highest level of safety; and transmitting information on the API safety grade to the blockchain.