Service operation management using near-field communications

At least one non-transitory machine readable storage medium, comprising a plurality of instructions that, responsive to being executed with processor circuitry of a computing system, cause the computing system to perform electronic operations for service operation authorization that:

• obtain a private key and a set of authorized service operations from a signing server for a client device, wherein the client device has non-persistent authentication credentials;
• determine a service operation from the set of authorized service operations to perform on the client device;
• generate a set of instructions for the service operation specific to the client device, wherein the set of instructions include commands for a secure administrative-level service operation capable of performance on the client device and data values associated with the secure administrative-level service operation, and wherein the data values are restricted to transfer by a wireless near-field communication (NFC) transfer;
• generate an authentication value for authentication with the client device using the private key, wherein implementation of the set of instructions on the client device includes use of the authentication value;
• generate a payload for the wireless NFC transfer, the payload including the set of instructions and the authentication value;
• and
• provide a command to perform the wireless NFC transfer of the payload to the client device using NFC circuitry of the computing system;
• wherein authentication is triggered by receipt of the authentication value, at the client device, via the wireless NFC transfer and wherein the client device restricts performance of the administrative-level service operation to a receipt of the administrative-level service operation through wireless NFC transfer.

A computing device to implement service operation authorization, the computing device comprising:

• a processor and a memory;
• near-field communication (NFC) circuitry;
• a configuration data processing component implemented with the processor and the memory, the configuration data processing component to:
• obtain a private key and a set of authorized service operations from a signing server for a client device, wherein the client device has non-persistent authentication credentials;
• determine a service operation from the set of authorized service operations to perform on the client device;
• and
• generate a set of instructions for the service operation specific to the client device, wherein the set of instructions include commands for a secure administrative-level service operation capable of performance on the client device and data values associated with the secure administrative-level service operation, and wherein the data values are restricted to transfer by a wireless NFC transfer;
• an authentication data processing component implemented with the processor and the memory, the authentication data processing component to generate an authentication identifier for the client device using the private key, wherein implementation of the set of instructions on the client device includes use of the authentication identifier;
• a payload data processing component implemented with the processor and the memory, the payload data processing component to generate a payload for the wireless NFC transfer via the NFC circuitry, the payload including the set of instructions and the authentication identifier;
• and
• an NFC communication processing component, the NFC communication processing component to transmit the wireless NFC transfer of the payload to the client device using the NFC circuitry;
• wherein authentication of the authentication value is triggered by receipt of the authentication identifier, at the client device, via the wireless NFC transfer and wherein the client device restricts performance of the administrative-level service operation to a receipt of the administrative-level service operations through wireless NFC transfer.