System and method to enhance and enforce zero trust in appliance supply chain
AssigneeDell Products L.P.
InventorsPiyush Ravikant Tambekar, Abhidnya Sushant Joshi, Mukesh K. Sharma
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Abstract
A computing appliance is configured with a zero trust validator and a zero trust enforcer that are configured to ensure that the appliance is protected in the supply chain. The zero trust validator compares a factory state of the appliance generated at the factory with an on-site state of the appliance at a customer location. If the zero trust validator identifies anomalies in the on-site state, a zero trust enforcer is configured to fix the anomalies prior to proceeding with installation at the customer site.
Claims20
A method for implementing a zero trust enforcer service in a computing system, the method comprising:
- receiving a notification from a zero trust validator service executing on a computing system that identifies anomalies between a factory state of the computing system and an on-site state of the computing system at a customer location, wherein the factory state includes information about at least one of system configurations, user accounts, or system boot up parameters identified at a factory in which the computing system was built and wherein the on-site state includes information about at least one of the system configurations, the user accounts, or the system boot up parameters identified at the customer location;
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- fixing the anomalies identified in the notification prior to continuing with an installation of the computing system at the customer location.
A non-transitory storage medium having stored therein instructions that are executable by one or more hardware processors to perform operations for implementing a zero trust enforcer service, the operations comprising:
- receiving a notification from a zero trust validator service executing on a computing system that identifies anomalies between a factory state of the computing system and an on-site state of the computing system at a customer location, wherein the factory state includes information about at least one of system configurations, user accounts, or system boot up parameters identified at a factory in which the computing system was built and wherein the on-site state includes information about at least one of the system configurations, the user accounts, or the system boot up parameters identified at the customer location;
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- fixing the anomalies identified in the notification prior to continuing with an installation of the computing system at the customer location.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.