Web Application Security Frame for Proactive Threat Modeling
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional software development life cycles lack proactive security measures, leading to costly and time-consuming retroactive modifications to address security vulnerabilities and threats, often relying on trial-and-error approaches that are not systematic or effective.
Innovation Solution
A web-based application security framework that incorporates expertise through a threat modeling component, context precision mechanism, and artificial intelligence to identify vulnerabilities, threats, and countermeasures, enabling proactive security engineering and automating security actions based on probabilistic analysis.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional trial-and-error security approaches are used, then security issues are addressed reactively, but this leads to costly interruptions and expensive programming time
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by performing security threat modeling and vulnerability identification during the design and development phases, rather than waiting until after deployment. The system proactively identifies potential security threats and vulnerabilities before they can be exploited, allowing developers to address security issues during the coding phase rather than requiring costly retroactive modifications after deployment.
2Reliability
If security engineering is incorporated from the beginning stages, then proactive security management is achieved, but this increases device complexity
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary automated system that acts as a mediator between developers and security threat modeling. This system provides structured guidance for identifying threats and vulnerabilities, organizing security information, and generating recommendations without requiring developers to become security experts themselves. The intermediary system manages the complexity internally while presenting a simplified interface to users.
3Reliability
If retroactive security measures are implemented after development completion, then security vulnerabilities are addressed, but this causes costly interruptions and delays deployment
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by performing security threat modeling and vulnerability identification during the design and development phases, rather than waiting until after deployment. The system proactively identifies potential security threats and vulnerabilities before they can be exploited, allowing developers to address security issues during the coding phase rather than requiring costly retroactive modifications after deployment.
4Reliability
If conventional guesswork approaches are used for security analysis, then some threats can be estimated, but this lacks founded benchmarks and systematic effectiveness
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transforms security analysis from subjective guesswork to objective measurement by changing the parameters from qualitative estimates to quantitative assessments. The system employs structured threat modeling frameworks, vulnerability databases, and risk calculation metrics that provide founded benchmarks for measuring security posture. This enables precise identification and prioritization of security threats based on measurable criteria rather than conjecture.
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AI summary
A web application security frame (e.g., schema) that can incorporate expertise into an engineering activity, for example, a threat modeling activity, is provided. The novel web application security frame component can be applied to a threat modeling component to converge knowledge into the activity by identifying categories, vulnerabilities, threats, attacks and countermeasures. The novel schema can create a common framework that converges knowledge with respect to any application engineering activity (e.g., threat modeling, performance modeling). Additionally, a context precision mechanism can be employed to automatically and/or dynamically determine a context of a web application environment. This context can be used to automatically generate an appropriate web application security frame component.