Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a storage storing restriction information indicating a restriction that a first communication address of a user registered in an external authentication apparatus is to satisfy in order to be permitted to use the information processing apparatus based on an authentication linkage with the external authentication apparatus; and a processor configured to acquire first information indicating authentication success, the first information being issued by the external authentication apparatus and including a second communication address generated by the external authentication apparatus in association with the first communication address, transmit, to the second communication address included in the first information, second information requesting execution of communication with a predetermined verification device, acquire, from the predetermined verification device, a verification result as to whether the first communication address satisfies the restriction, the first

Abstract: The present invention overcomes problem of pseudonymous Blockchain transactions that preclude the identification of an individual or institutional identity that rely solely on a Blockchain address of a recipient in a Blockchain transaction. A system and method is provided that verifies transfers in an on-chain Blockchain Bitcoin transaction by using a sequence of Blockchain Bitcoin transactions that establish and confirm an identity of one or more parties to the transaction.

Abstract: A method authenticates a device in a communication network of an automation installation, in which authentication information indicating the device is transmitted to an authentication server that admits or rejects the device in the communication network as a subscriber. To perform an authentication of the device in a communication network configured with redundancy, the communication network has a communication ring that, besides the device, has first and second neighbor devices. At the start of the authentication the device sends authentication requests containing the authentication information to the neighbor devices. The neighbor devices duplicate the authentication information and send it via the communication ring in both transmission directions to an authentication server which uses the authentication information to perform a respective check on the authenticity of the device and admits or rejects the device in the communication network as a subscriber as the result of the check.

Abstract: Systems and methods for adaptive token verification are disclosed. For example, a system may include at least one memory storing instructions and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to perform operations. The operations may include training a verification model to verify tokenized requests based on system identifiers. The operations may include receiving a tokenized request from an external system, the request comprising a system identifier of the external system. The operations may include generating output of the verification model based on the system identifier, and, based on the output, performing one of granting the request or blocking the request.

Abstract: Provided is a computer-implemented method and system for checking anonymisation of data. Anonymized data are analysed by means of a smart contract process based on data privacy rules automatically raising a flag in case of an anomaly. The smart contract is governed in a decentralized manner where anodes of distributed database can verify the rules specified in the smart contract and/or assess an anomalous situation. To this end, test data are generated at the data source by applying the data privacy rules to the original data. The test data are checked against the anonymized data and depending on the check result metadata are generated. The metadata are provided to nodes of a distributed database for further verification.

Abstract: Systems and methods provide a blockchain strategic master data computing environment for master data management, where the strategic master data computing environment includes a peer-to-peer computing network comprising interconnected peer nodes collectively programmed to interoperate based at least in part on a computing environment coordination protocol, a portion or all of the plurality of peer nodes being configured to maintain a distributed and immutable master ledger storing data asset records of decentralized applications and collectively execute a set of trust protocols to securely write to the master ledger, where the trust protocols include a peer node interacting with other peer nodes within the peer-to-peer computing network to achieve consensus on identity of data assets referenced in a transaction and to endorse disposition of the transaction in the master ledger. The master ledger also stores smart contracts that include object codes, where the smart contracts are executed by peer node(s).

Abstract: Apparatus configured to obtain a hash of a file to be transmitted to a second apparatus and an indication of a file creator of the file; retrieve an identifier associated with the file creator; store the hash of the file, associated with the identifier of the file creator, in an immutable ledger; obtain the hash of the file from the second apparatus; verify that the hash of the file is stored in the immutable ledger; retrieve, from the immutable ledger, one or more assertions associated with the file; retrieve, from the immutable ledger, the associated identifier of the file creator using the hash of the file; and transmit, to the second apparatus: a confirmation that the file is from the file creator; and at least one of the one or more assertions associated with the file.

Abstract: A method and system of providing verification of information of a user relating to an attestation transaction is provided, and includes sending a request for information of the user, wherein the information has been previously attested to in an attestation transaction stored within a centralized or distributed ledger at an attestation address; receiving at a processor associated with a verifier the information of the user; sending a cryptographic challenge nonce; receiving at the processor associated with the verifier the cryptographic challenge nonce signed by the user's private key; verifying user identity with the cryptographic challenge nonce signed by the user's private key; deriving a public attest key by using the information of the user; deriving an attestation address using the public attest key; and verifying the existence of the attestation transaction at the attestation address in the centralized or distributed ledger.

Abstract: A disclosed security broker receives a request message addressed to a message queue associated with an edge resource, identifies the message source, and leverages an authentication module to verify that the source has authorization to access the targeted message queue. The security broker may then deliver the request message to the targeted edge resource message queue. If the edge resource and security broker are physically isolated, the security broker may format the request message as a file, store the file to a storage device, and transfer the storage device to the edge resource, which may then process the file and upload the request message to the edge resource's message queue module. The security broker also monitors a response message from the edge resource, purges sensitive data from the response. If the broker and cloud resource are physically isolated, the response may be formatted and delivered as a file.

Abstract: For a host that executes one or more guest virtual machines (GVMs), some embodiments provide a novel encryption method for encrypting the data messages sent by the GVMs. The method initially receives a data message to send for a GVM executing on the host. The method then determines whether it should encrypt the data message based on a set of one or more encryption rules. When the process determines that it should encrypt the received data message, it encrypts the data message and forwards the encrypted data message to its destination; otherwise, the method just forwards the received data message unencrypted to its destination. In some embodiments, the host encrypts differently the data messages for different GVMs that execute on the host.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method, according to one embodiment, includes: determining, for each pair of HCI systems where each pair includes a first HCI system coupled to another HCI system, a federation relationship setting that corresponds to each pair. The federation relationship settings are used to control a flow of data, as well as to control a flow of workload scheduling, between the first HCI system and the other HCI systems in the respective pairs. Moreover, determining a federation relationship setting that corresponds to a pair includes: determining whether a risk score which corresponds to the pair is outside a predetermined range. In response to determining that the risk score is outside the predetermined range, a restrictive federation relationship setting is assigned to the pair, and in response to determining that the risk score is not outside the predetermined range, a permissive federation relationship setting is assigned to the pair.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a traffic inspection service executed by an intermediary device obtains, from a monitoring agent executed by an endpoint device, keying information for an encrypted traffic session between the endpoint device and a remote entity. The traffic inspection service provides a notification to the monitoring agent that acknowledges receipt of the keying information. The traffic inspection service uses the keying information to decrypt encrypted traffic from the encrypted traffic session. The traffic inspection service applies a policy to the encrypted traffic session between the endpoint device and the remote entity, based on the decrypted traffic from the session.

Abstract: Methods, systems, devices, and apparatuses for securely providing an over-the-air firmware upgrade. The system includes an embedded device configured to receive the firmware upgrade. The system includes a server having a memory configured to store a first key encryption key, the firmware upgrade and a firmware key and having a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to obtain the firmware upgrade, the firmware key and the first key encryption key. The processor is configured to encrypt the firmware upgrade using the firmware key. The processor is configured to encrypt the firmware key with the first key encryption key and transmit the encrypted firmware upgrade and the encrypted firmware key to the embedded device.

Abstract: A system continuously stores, as machine learning data, metadata results associated with a previous cyber-attack, a previous inspection class policy definition at a time of the previous cyber-attack, and a result of a previous data protection operation taken upon indication of the previous cyber-attack; continuously monitors for a new security condition or event; detects the new security condition or event; determines an appropriate inspection class policy from a plurality of inspection class policies based on the new security condition or event; based on the determined inspection class policy and the machine learning training data, determines a specific class of inspection tool from a plurality of classes of inspection tools or a specific level of inspection from a plurality of different levels of inspection for the new security condition or event; and executes the specific class of inspection tool or the specific level of inspection using the specific class of inspection tool on a particular data object to

Abstract: In some implementations, the device may include receiving, from a first medical facility, by a first facility application, a request to send a medical document to a second medical facility. In addition, the device may include receiving, from an application server, by the first facility application, mapping rules for the second medical facility. The device may include generating, by the first facility application, a modified medical document based on the mapping rules for the second medical facility and the medical document. Moreover, the device may include sending, by the first facility application, to a second facility application, the modified medical document. Also, the device may include sending, by the second facility application, to the second medical facility, the modified medical document.

Abstract: An Information Handling System (IHS) includes multiple hardware devices, and a baseboard Management Controller (BMC) in communication with the plurality of hardware devices. The BMC includes executable instructions for causing the one hardware device to be inhibited from functioning with the IHS when at least one of the hardware devices is powered on, and performing an authentication procedure with that hardware device. After that hardware device has been successfully authenticated, the instructions then enable the one hardware device to function with the IHS.

Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are discussed for providing ZTNA control across multiple related, but independently provisioned networks.

Abstract: A method includes determining that access permissions associated with a service of a computing system have been revoked, identifying one or more access policy sets including access policy rules associated with the service, removing the access policy rules associated with the service from the one or more access policy sets, and marking one or more decision execution paths of a policy decision point associated with the service with a feature flag.

Abstract: A modem/gateway device having a password retrieval function is provided that includes a user interface, a hardware processor, and a non-transitory memory configured to store one or more programs. The hardware processor executes the one or more programs to receive a request for a password retrieval in response to an input from the user interface, generate a message for retrieving a password for a wireless network, and transmit the message to a server. The password corresponds to an email address to which an email is to be sent by the server. The transmitted message instructs a password retrieval operation by the server to transmit the password to the email address.

Abstract: An active distributed ledger may comprise an indication of an inactive permission associated with a user device. An entry comprising such indication added to another distributed ledger that is supplemental to the active distributed ledger. An updated active distributed ledger may be generated that does not comprise the indication of the inactive permission. The updated active distributed ledger may comprise an indication of a new permission associated with the user device. The updated active distributed ledger may be stored on the user device or any other device on a network.