Website Security Level Determination via Multi-Source Scoring

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Solution Overview

Problem

Websites are increasingly vulnerable to malicious attacks, making it difficult for operators and users to assess and ensure the security and safety of a website, which can harm reputation and impact traffic.

Innovation Solution

A site analysis system that processes content, historical, and external information to generate a security level score for websites, providing a comprehensive assessment of safety and security through a content score, reputational score, and final score, which can be used as an advisory tool for users and operators.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If comprehensive security assessment methods are implemented, then measurement precision of website security is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesecurity level measurementVSAvoidassessment system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The security assessment system is divided into multiple independent modules: content analysis module that evaluates website content and structure, reputational analysis module that assesses external reputation data, and score determination module that combines results. This segmentation allows each module to specialize in specific assessment tasks, improving measurement precision while managing complexity through modular design.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces a processing system that acts as an intermediary between raw security data and final security level determination. This processing system receives content information, historical event information, and external information, then processes them through standardized algorithms to generate content scores and reputational scores, which are finally combined into an overall security level. This intermediary layer simplifies the complexity by providing a structured approach to data integration.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Reliability

If multiple information sources are analyzed, then reliability of security assessment is improved, but loss of time in processing increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesecurity assessment reliabilityVSAvoidinformation processing time
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary analysis by separately processing content information and reputational information through dedicated modules before combining them. The content analysis module pre-processes website content and structure data, while the reputational analysis module pre-processes external reputation data. This preliminary action allows parallel processing of multiple information sources, improving reliability through comprehensive analysis while reducing total processing time through concurrent operations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements a multi-component scoring system that combines content scores and reputational scores to determine final security levels. Rather than using a single comprehensive analysis, the system performs partial analyses through separate modules and combines results. This approach maintains reliability by considering multiple factors while managing processing time through selective and modular analysis of different information sources.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Data Source

PatentUS8856545B2Security level determination of websites
Publication Date: 2014.10.07 CLOUDFLARE INC
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AI summary

A site analysis system to determine a security level of a website comprises a communication transceiver and a processing system. The communication transceiver is configured to receive content information associated with the website describing a current state of the website, receive historical event information associated with the website, and receive external information associated with the website from a source external to the website. The processing system is configured to process the content information to determine a content score for the website, process the historical event information and the external information to determine a reputational score for the website, and process the content score and the reputational score to generate a final score for the website.