US 12,001,566 B2
Method and system for generating security findings acquisition records for systems and system components
Sameer Sehgal, Round Rock, TX (US)
Assigned to DELL PRODUCTS L.P., Round Rock, TX (US)
Filed by Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US)
Filed on Sep. 30, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/490,188.
Prior Publication US 2023/0112966 A1, Apr. 13, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 21/57 (2013.01)
CPC G06F 21/577 (2013.01) [G06F 2221/034 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for generating security findings acquisition (SFA) records, the method comprising:
obtaining, by a security finding acquisition system (SFAS) orchestrator, an entity context request associated with an entity;
in response to obtaining the entity context request:
making a first determination, by the SFAS orchestrator, that the entity is not associated with an entity directed acyclic graph (DAG);
in response to the first determination:
obtaining, by the SFAS orchestrator, the entity DAG associated with the entity from a lineage builder;
making a second determination, by the SFAS orchestrator, that the entity is not associated with SFA anchors;
in response to the second determination:
obtaining, by the SFAS orchestrator, the SFA anchors associated with the entity from a resolver, wherein obtaining the SFA anchors comprises:
 sending, by the SFAS orchestrator, an SFA anchor request and the entity DAG to the resolver;
 in response to obtaining the SFA anchor request and the entity DAG:
 obtaining, by the resolver, security modeling assessment system connection data from a registrar;
 generating, by the resolver, the SFA anchors using the security modeling assessment system connection data and the entity DAG; and
 providing, by the resolver, the SFA anchors to the SFAS orchestrator;
obtaining, by the SFAS orchestrator, the SFA records associated with the entity from an extractor using the SFA anchors; and
performing, by the SFAS orchestrator, security actions using the SFA records.