Trusted device control messages

#Online or electronic security is a major issue in the industry. It seems a month does not go by without news of some major business having a security breach. Such breaches include government agencies, retail outlets, social media companies, and even major banks.

#Whenever an enterprise believes that a secure fix to remedy a breach has been deployed, hackers quickly figure out a new way to breach their systems. In some cases, the breaches are not even within the systems of the enterprise; rather, the breaches can occur over network transmission lines that enter or exit the enterprise systems; the hackers use sniffing techniques to acquire copies of data packets being transmitted over the network lines and find a way to break any encryption being used (assuming encryption was being used).

#Even when an enterprise is capable of reasonably securing intra-device communications (communications between integrated devices within a composite device), large enterprises still face significant management issues of their entire fleet of devices.

#FIG. 1A is a diagram of interactions for trust control messaging between two devices, according to an example embodiment.

#FIG. 1B is a diagram of interactions between devices and applications using trusted control messaging to end a secure session between the devices, according to an example embodiment.

#FIG. 2 is a diagram of a method for trusted control message communication, according to an example embodiment.

#FIG. 1A is a diagram of interactions for trust control messaging between two devices, according to an example embodiment. The components of the diagram are shown in greatly simplified form with only those components shown necessary for the understanding of the some embodiments of the invention.

#The inter-device communications discussed herein and below utilize a protocol for secure devices within a terminal to communicate with one another. The protocol utilizes custom encryption to encrypt data packets or data payloads during a secure communication session between the devices within the terminal.

#In an embodiment, at least one device within the terminal is a Secure Input/Output Module (SIOM), which is a hardware module that is independent of the Operating System (OS) of the native terminal within which the SIOM resides. The SIOM serves as a secure interface for communications directed to and communications directed from one or more peripheral devices within the terminal.