Workspace Instantiation Through Continuous Vulnerability Feedback
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing Information Handling Systems (IHSs) face challenges in securing workspaces due to varying operational scenarios and potential vulnerabilities, especially when used in diverse locations and coupled with both public and private devices, making them susceptible to malicious attacks.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a workspace orchestration service that uses continuous vulnerability intelligence feedback loops to scan, analyze, and generate models for securing workspaces, adjusting definitions based on threat patterns and vulnerabilities, and extending these models to other IHSs to ensure consistent security across multiple devices.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If workspace orchestration service continuously scans and analyzes vulnerabilities to generate updated protection models, then security protection capability is improved, but system complexity and computational resources increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary vulnerability scanning and analysis during workspace definition creation, establishing baseline protection models before actual threats materialize. This proactive approach allows the system to prepare security configurations in advance, reducing the complexity of real-time response while maintaining high security protection capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The workspace orchestration service implements continuous feedback loops where vulnerability scanning results, threat intelligence, and security events are fed back into the system to automatically update protection models. This automated feedback mechanism enables the system to adapt to new threats without manual intervention, improving security while managing complexity through automation.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the workspace orchestration service dynamically adjusts protection models based on threat patterns, then adaptability to changing threats is improved, but processing time and computational resources increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-processes and categorizes threat patterns, establishing baseline protection models that can be quickly activated when threats are detected. By preparing response templates and protection configurations in advance, the system can dynamically adapt to new threats without requiring extensive real-time processing, thus maintaining low latency while achieving high adaptability.
Solution Approach 2:
The workspace orchestration service dynamically adjusts protection parameters such as security policies, access controls, and isolation levels based on detected threat patterns. By changing only the necessary parameters rather than reconfiguring entire protection models, the system achieves rapid adaptation to changing threats while minimizing processing time and computational overhead.
3Measurement precision
If vulnerability scanning and threat analysis are performed continuously, then detection precision of security threats is improved, but system performance and resource consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The workspace orchestration service implements periodic vulnerability scanning and threat analysis at strategically determined intervals rather than continuous monitoring. Scanning frequency is adjusted based on risk levels, change detection, and threat intelligence, allowing the system to maintain high detection precision for critical issues while reducing unnecessary scanning that would degrade system performance and consume excessive resources.
Solution Approach 2:
The system applies different scanning depths and analysis intensities to different workspaces based on their sensitivity, criticality, and risk profiles. High-value targets receive more intensive and frequent scanning with higher detection precision, while lower-risk workspaces receive lighter scanning to minimize performance impact. This localized quality approach optimizes the balance between detection precision and system performance.
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AI summary
An Information Technology Decision Maker (ITDM) defines a user workspace to be received and orchestrated by a workspace orchestration Information Handling System (IHS) on a host IHS. The orchestration IHS also receives specifications of the host, scans the user workspace definition for vulnerabilities, analyzes the vulnerabilities, and generates (an) attack parameter(s) and/or (a) pattern(s) of threat(s) to the user workspace. The orchestration IHS defines a model workspace definition that includes baseline protection for workload deployment against the attack parameter(s) and/or pattern(s) of threat(s), for orchestration, with the host, on the host. The same or another orchestration IHS (local to the host IHS) traces drift in the workload on the host, generates further attack parameter(s) and/or further pattern(s) of threat(s) from the drift. The same or other orchestration IHS adjusts the model workspace definition to include protection against the further attack parameter(s) and/or further pattern(s) of threat(s), for orchestration.