Providing Geographic Protection To A System
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsNed M. Smith, Simon P. Johnson, Steve Orrin, Willard M. Wiseman
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Abstract
In one embodiment, a method includes determining a location of a system responsive to location information received from at least one of a location sensor and a wireless device of the system, associating the location with a key present in the system to generate an authenticated location of the system, and determining whether the authenticated location is within a geofence boundary indicated in a location portion of a launch control policy (LCP) that provides a geographic-specific policy. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
Claims20
At least one machine-readable storage medium including instructions that when executed cause a system to:
- receive a location of the system;
- compare the location to a policy location stored in a first value of a geographic key manifest signed by a geographic key, the first value associating a policy with the policy location and a software agent;
- and
- log a result of the comparison in a trusted storage.
A mobile device comprising:
- a first hardware processor;
- a first location sensor to provide geographic information regarding the mobile device;
- a secure storage to store a data structure having a plurality of keys to be used for software agents having a corresponding launch control policy for a geographic location;
- and
- an authentication control module to enable a first software agent to be launched responsive to a determination that the mobile device is in a geographic location indicated by the corresponding launch control policy.
A method comprising:
- receiving a location of a system;
- comparing the location to a policy location stored in a first value of a geographic key manifest signed by a geographic key, the first value associating a policy with the policy location and a software agent;
- and
- logging a result of the comparison in a trusted storage of the system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.