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US 12,225,128 B2Granted
Detection and remediation of unauthorized relocation of storage media
AssigneeSoftiron Limited
InventorsCharles C. Ruffino, Stephen Hardwick, Mark Chen
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Abstract
An apparatus includes a cryptographic key for encrypting content to be written to a storage media. The apparatus includes a control circuit configured to determine that the storage media has been physically moved, and, based on the determination that the storage media has been physically moved, erase the storage media by deleting the cryptographic key.
Claims20
An apparatus, comprising:
- a cryptographic key for encrypting content to be written to a storage media;
- and
- a control circuit configured to:
- determine that the storage media has been physically moved;
- and
- based on the determination that the storage media has been physically moved, erase the storage media by deleting the cryptographic key;
- wherein:
- the control circuit is located on a server, the server to include a plurality of intelligent storage media trays, each intelligent storage media tray to include the storage media or one of a plurality of second storage media;
- the apparatus further includes one or more second cryptographic keys, each cryptographic key corresponding to one of the second storage media and for encrypting content to be written to and read from the storage media;
- and
- the control circuit is further configured to:
- determine that the server unit has been physically moved;
- and
- based on a determination that the server unit has been physically moved, erase the storage media and all the second storage media by deleting the cryptographic key and all of the second cryptographic keys.
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A method, comprising:
- providing a cryptographic key for encrypting content to be written to a storage media;
- determining that the storage media has been physically moved;
- based on the determination that the storage media has been physically moved, erasing the storage media by deleting the cryptographic key;
- wherein:
- a server includes a plurality of intelligent storage media trays, each intelligent storage media tray includes the storage media or one of a plurality of second storage media;
- the server includes one or more second cryptographic keys, each cryptographic key corresponding to one of the second storage media and for encrypting content to be written to and read from the storage media;
- the further comprises:
- determining that the server unit has been physically moved;
- and
- based on a determination that the server unit has been physically moved, erasing the storage media and all the second storage media by deleting the cryptographic key and all of the second cryptographic keys.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.