Secure Near Field Communication Server Information Handling System Support

A server information handling system comprising:

• a chassis;
• one or more processors disposed in the chassis and operable to process information;
• memory disposed in the chassis and interfaced with the processors, the memory operable to store the information;
• one or more network devices disposed in the chassis and interfaced with the processor, the one or more network devices operable to communicate with one or more networks;
• a baseboard management controller disposed in the chassis and interfaced with the one or more processors, the memory and the one or more network devices, the baseboard management controller operable to manage operation of the one or more processors;
• an NFC device interfaced with the baseboard management controller and operable to exchange NFC communications with an external NFC device;
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• an encryption module interfaced with the NFC device and operable to apply a private key to restrict NFC communications to external NFC devices that have the private key.

A security system for providing secure access to a server information handling system with NFC communication, the security system comprising:

• a security database storing plural user names, each user name having a password and one or more access privileges;
• a baseboard management controller integrated with the server information handling system and operable to manage operations of the server information handling system;
• an NFC device integrated with the server information handling system and interfaced with the baseboard management controller, the NFC device operable to provide NFC communications to the baseboard management controller;
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• an NFC application stored in memory of a portable information handling system and operable to apply a private key to create an NFC application hash and a user credential hash;
• wherein the baseboard management controller accepts NFC communications only from NFC applications having a private key stored on the server information handling system and provides NFC applications access at a privilege level retrieved from the security database based upon a user name and password provided from the NFC application and encrypted by the private key.