Methods for detecting changes to a firmware and devices thereof

A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon instructions comprising executable code which when executed by one or more processors, causes the processors to:

• obtain an executable file comprising a basic input-output system firmware and software component data of a hardware component at run-time;
• identify a hash value for the obtained executable file at the run-time, wherein identifying the hash value for the obtained executable file at the run-time further comprises, applying a hashing algorithm on the obtained executable file to identify the hash value;
• compare the identified hash value with a stored hash value associated with the obtained executable file to determine when the obtained executable file is unmodified, wherein the stored hash value was determined at a build time of the hardware component;
• and
• execute the obtained executable file of the hardware component when the obtained executable file is determined to be unmodified.

A network traffic manager apparatus, comprising memory comprising programmed instructions stored in the memory and one or more processors configured to be capable of executing the programmed instructions stored in the memory to:

• obtain an executable file comprising a basic input-output system firmware and software component data of a hardware component at run-time;
• identify a hash value for the obtained executable file at the run-time, wherein identifying the hash value for the obtained executable file at the run-time further comprises, applying a hashing algorithm on the obtained executable file to identify the hash value;
• compare the identified hash value with a stored hash value associated with the obtained executable file to determine when the obtained executable file is unmodified, wherein the stored hash value was determined at a build time of the hardware component;
• and
• execute the obtained executable file of the hardware component when the obtained executable file is determined to be unmodified.

A network traffic management system, comprising one or more traffic management apparatuses, client devices, or server devices, the network traffic management system comprising memory comprising programmed instructions stored thereon and one or more processors configured to be capable of executing the stored programmed instructions to:

• obtain an executable file comprising a basic input-output system firmware and software component data of a hardware component at run-time;
• identify a hash value for the obtained executable file at the run-time, wherein identifying the hash value for the obtained executable file at the run-time further comprises, applying a hashing algorithm on the obtained executable file to identify the hash value;
• compare the identified hash value with a stored hash value associated with the obtained executable file to determine when the obtained executable file is unmodified, wherein the stored hash value was determined at a build time of the hardware component;
• and
• execute the obtained executable file of the hardware component when the obtained executable file is determined to be unmodified.