Hardware tampering detection
AssigneeDell Products L.P.
InventorsParminder Singh SETHI, Srinath KAPPGAL, Malathi RAMAKRISHNAN, Daniel L. HAMLIN, Praveen KUMAR
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Abstract
An information handling system may include at least one processor, a plurality of physical sensors, and a firmware having instructions coded thereon that are executable by the at least one processor for: detecting, based on one or more of the physical sensors, a tampering event associated with the information handling system; and transmitting data regarding the tampering event to a central monitoring system.
Claims18
An information handling system comprising:
- at least one processor;
- a plurality of physical sensors;
- and
- a firmware having instructions coded thereon that are executable by the at least one processor for:
- detecting, based on one or more of the physical sensors, a tampering event associated with the information handling system;
- and
- transmitting data regarding the tampering event to a central monitoring system.
A method comprising:
- an information handling system detecting, via a plurality of physical sensors thereof, a tampering event associated with the information handling system;
- and
- the information handling system transmitting, via a firmware thereof, data regarding the tampering event to a central monitoring system.
An article of manufacture comprising a non-transitory, computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions thereon that are executable by a processor of an information handling system for:
- detecting, via a plurality of physical sensors of the information handling system, a tampering event associated with the information handling system;
- and
- transmitting, via a firmware thereof, data regarding the tampering event to a central monitoring system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.