System and method for enabling and verifying the trustworthiness of a hardware system

To determine whether an IoT system connected with a network environment (e.g., the internet) is compromised, a networked Trust as a Service (TaaS) server receives system data indicative of various characteristics of the IoT system, wherein the system data is harvested by a software agent installed o...

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Main Authors Espinosa, Antonio J, Merchant, Sameer, Bemmel, Vincent, Sastry, Shashi
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 22.02.2022
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
ELECTRICITY
PHYSICS
TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION
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Summary:To determine whether an IoT system connected with a network environment (e.g., the internet) is compromised, a networked Trust as a Service (TaaS) server receives system data indicative of various characteristics of the IoT system, wherein the system data is harvested by a software agent installed on the IoT system. The TaaS server initially establishes a baseline characteristics profile for the IoT system, such that subsequently received system data from the software agent may be compared against the baseline characteristics profile to quickly identify discrepancies between the originally established baseline characteristics profile and current operating characteristics of the system. Such discrepancies may be caused by desirable software updates, in which case the discrepancies may be integrated into the baseline characteristics profile, or the discrepancies may result from the IoT system being undesirably compromised.
Bibliography:Application Number: US201816119357