Systems and methods for intelligently constructing, transmitting, and validating spoofing-conscious digitally signed web tokens using microservice components of a cybersecurity threat mitigation platform
US12052364B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Dec 19, 2023 |
| Grant date | Jul 30, 2024 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 19, 2043 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L67/02
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A system and method for using digitally signed web tokens to securely share sensitive data includes identifying an API request that includes an authorization header comprising authentication data; assessing the authentication data of the API request against a corpus of valid authentication data; identifying the authentication data as valid authentication data and a target entity that corresponds to the authentication data; obtaining a set of permissions associated with the target entity; generating a digitally signed protobuf web token that includes a representation of the target entity and a representation of the set of permissions associated with the target entity; and based on the generation of the digitally signed protobuf web token: adapting the API request to an adapted API request that includes a header component comprising the digitally signed protobuf web token; and transmitting the adapted API request to a target API-processing service.
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