Controllable edge gateway retirement
AssigneeDell Products L.P.
InventorsTOMER SHACHAR, MAXIM BALIN, YEVGENI GEHTMAN
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Abstract
Methods and systems for retiring edge devices are disclosed. The edge devices may be secured through destruction of the trusted platform module. Destruction of the trusted platform module may remove access to the key used to encrypt all data on an edge device. Removal of access to the key on an edge device may render data on the edge device to be inaccessible. Data that may be inaccessible may ultimately secure the edge device from access. In securing the access to the edge device, the edge device may be retired.
Claims20
A method for retiring edge devices, the method comprising:
- obtaining a request to retire an edge device of the edge devices;
- making a determination that a burnout procedure is to be performed as part of retiring the edge device;
- and
- based on the determination:
- performing the burnout procedure to eliminate use of a key by the edge device, the use of the key being required to use data stored by the edge device.
A non-transitory machine-readable medium having instructions stored therein, which when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations for retiring edge devices, the operation comprising:
- obtaining a request to retire an edge device of the edge devices;
- making a determination that a burnout procedure is to be performed as part of retiring the edge device;
- and
- based on the determination:
- performing the burnout procedure to eliminate use of a key by the edge device, the use of the key being required to use data stored by the edge device.
A data processing system, comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory coupled to the processor to store instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations retiring edge devices, the operations comprising:
- obtaining a request to retire an edge device of the edge devices;
- making a determination that a burnout procedure is to be performed as part of retiring the edge device;
- and
- based on the determination:
- performing the burnout procedure to eliminate use of a key by the edge device, the use of the key being required to use data stored by the edge device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.