Device reporting and protection systems and methods using a secure distributed transactional ledger

A computing device comprising:

• one or more processors;
• one or more memory components communicatively coupled to the processor;
• one or more network interfaces, communicatively coupled to the processor, that provides access to one or more networks;
• one or more sensors for capturing sensor data related to the computing device;
• and
• a security subsystem that provides one or more security-related services, the security subsystem comprising:
• a peer interface, communicatively coupled to the network interface, that interfaces with one or more decentralized nodes of a peer-to-peer network, the peer-to-peer network comprising a plurality of nodes that maintain a cryptographically secure and public block chain;
• a rules database that comprises a set of rules related to security of the device;
• a systems interface module that interfaces with the one or more system components to gather data related to security of the device and that, responsive to a perceived security risk, disables access to, operation of, or both of one or more functions of the device;
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• a criteria monitor engine, communicatively coupled to the rules module, that analyzes at some of the gathered data based upon one or more rules in the rules database to detect a security issue.

A computer-implemented method to provide protection for an information handling system, the method comprising:

• attempting to access a peer-to-peer network that maintains a secure distributed transactional ledger, the secure distributed transactional ledger comprising a cryptographically linked sets of data blocks;
• responsive to being able to access the peer-to-peer network, obtaining at least part of the secure distributed transactional ledger;
• examining one or more of the data blocks for a message directed to the information handling system;
• responsive to identify a message directed to the information handling system, verifying whether the message was sent by an authorized entity;
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• responsive to the message being from a verified authorized entity, taking one or more actions related to the message.