Abstract: In an example, a method is described. The method comprises receiving an indication of a change to a computing system useable in a computing network. The method further comprises establishing whether a rule system is affected by the change. In response to establishing that the rule system is affected by the change, the method causes the rule system to be modified to account for the change.

Abstract: An apparatus and method is described comprising: classifying service ticket data relating to a service request into a service topic, wherein the service ticket data is obtained from the service request relating to a device; determining, for the service request, an extent to which the service topic matches a telemetry data class, wherein the telemetry data class relates to activities at the device; and providing an output according to said determination.

Abstract: In an example, a hypervisor measuring the state of a protected virtual machine using a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) filter. Using the TPM filter, the system ensures an untrusted operating system attempting to access the TPM is secure, without having to trust the security of the operating system or the operating system's built in hypervisor.

Abstract: A computing device may receive data associated with an event from an originating apparatus in the form of a data item. The computing device may then apply an evaluation function to the data item, wherein applying the evaluation function generates a processing result characterizing an aspect of the data item. The computing device may generate a tag based on the processing result. The computing device may associate the generated tag with the data, wherein the tag is transmitted with the data outside the network environment where the data item is not accessible for processing outside the network environment, but the data tag is accessible. The computing device may provide the data and the tag for transmission.

Abstract: A cluster enrollment system remote to a device cluster performs a cluster enrollment process according to a cluster enrollment policy to determine whether a target device is authenticated to join the device cluster.

Abstract: At least in some examples, a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium can be encoded with instructions for analysing an operating system configuration, the instructions executable by a processor of a system, whereby to cause the system to generate a set of malware samples, each malware sample defined by a set of actions forming an attack chain representing a sequence of procedures, execute each of the malware samples on an instance of the operating system configuration to generate a set of logs, and using the set of logs, determine a set of actions detected by an anti-malware process of the operating system configuration.

Abstract: In an example, a method is described. The method comprises receiving identifying information associated with an occurrence of an activity within a computing network. The method further comprises receiving an indication of a sequence value generated by a sequence function that iterates the sequence value in response to a metric associated with activity of the computing network triggering iteration of the sequence value. The method further comprises producing a data element representative of the identifying information by using the indicated sequence value as an input to a transformation function for at least partially concealing the identifying information when producing the data element.

Abstract: A composite material is provided. In some aspects, the composite material may include a combination of a thermoplastic resin mixed with a polypropylene-graft-maleic anhydride (PPgMA). Carbon particles may be mixed in the combination. In this way, the composite material may include between 80 wt. % and 90 wt. % of the thermoplastic resin, between 0.5 wt. % and 15 wt. % of PPgMA, and between 0.1 wt. % to 7 wt. % of carbon particles. Carbon particles may have exposed carbon surfaces with carbon atoms bonded to molecular sites on adjacent PPgMA molecules. At least some carbon atoms may be oxidized with one or more of oxygen-containing groups. Oxidation of carbon atoms may be associated with an increase in at least some PPgMA molecules chemically bonding with adjacent carbon atoms per unit volume. In this way, interaction between carbon atoms and PPgMA molecules may maintain composite material density within +/?3% of thermoplastic resin density.

Abstract: In an example, a computing device includes a processor which in a reimaging operation of the computing device, may determine if a backup image to be used in the reimaging operation is available from a memory device connected to a local area network of the computing device. When the backup image is available from the memory device, the processor may acquire the backup image over the local area network. When the backup image is not available from the memory device, the processor may determine if a backup image is available from a wide area network of the computing device.

Abstract: In an example, a computing device is described. The computing device comprises a memory to store a set of states and a corresponding set of non-overlapping time intervals. The computing device further comprises a timing unit to indicate a time at which a signature is to be produced. The computing device further comprises a processor to: identify which time interval of the set of non-overlapping time intervals includes the indicated time; generate a signing key based on a state associated with the identified time interval; and produce a signature, under a stateful signature scheme, with the signing key.

Abstract: In an example, a computing device is described. The computing device comprises a processor. The processor is to generate a key using a value as an input to generate the key. The processor is further to, in response to generating the key, exclude the value from future use as the input. The processor is further to store an indication of a subsequent value to use as the input to generate a subsequent key. The indication is cryptographically associated with an entity to control third-party access to the indication.

Abstract: In an example, a computing device is described. The computing device comprises an interface to receive a request from a signer for a state. The state is to be used as an input to generate a key under a stateful signature scheme. The computing device further comprises a processor. The processor is to identify an available state that the signer is authorized to use in response to the request received via the interface. The available state is identified from a set of states that can be used by the signer to maintain statefulness of the stateful signature scheme. The processor is further to instruct a reply to be sent to the signer via the interface. The reply comprises an indication of the state that the signer is authorized to use.

Abstract: In an example, a computing device is described. The computing device comprises a communication interface and a processor. The processor is to determine whether a signature, produced by a signer, is derived from a free state under a stateful signature scheme. The free state is a state that has not been used as an input to generate a signing key. The signature is encrypted by the signer. The processor is further to, in response to determining that the signature is derived from a free state, decrypt the encrypted signature. The processor is further to transmit the decrypted signature to a recipient via the communication interface.

Abstract: An example computing device includes a user interface, a network interface, a non-volatile memory, a processor coupled to the user interface, the network interface, and the non-volatile memory, and a set of instructions stored in the non-volatile memory. The set of instructions, when executed by the processor, is to perform a hardware initialization of the computing device according to a setting, establish a local trust domain and a remote trust domain, use a local-access public key to issue a challenge via the user interface to grant local access to the setting, and use a remote-access public key to grant remote access via the network interface to remote access to the setting.

Abstract: Methods include producing tunable carbon structures and combining carbon structures with a polymer to form a composite material. Carbon structures include crinkled graphene. Methods also include functionalizing the carbon structures, either in-situ, within the plasma reactor, or in a liquid collection facility. The plasma reactor has a first control for tuning the specific surface area (SSA) of the resulting tuned carbon structures as well as a second, independent control for tuning the SSA of the tuned carbon structures. The composite materials that result from mixing the tuned carbon structures with a polymer results in composite materials that exhibit exceptional favorable mechanical and/or other properties. Mechanisms that operate between the carbon structures and the polymer yield composite materials that exhibit these exceptional mechanical properties are also examined.

Abstract: In an example, an apparatus is described. The apparatus comprises processing circuitry comprising a control module. The control module is to protect information regarding a machine learning model owned by a third party. The information is protected in a memory communicatively coupled to the control module. In response to receiving an indication that a computing device under control of the control module complies with a third party policy associated with the machine learning model, the control module is to release the information to the computing device.

Abstract: In an example, an apparatus is described. The apparatus comprises processing circuitry comprising a control module. The control module determines whether a computing device communicatively coupled to the control module is in a specified state for executing a machine learning model controlled by a third party entity. In response to determining that the computing device is in the specified state, the control module is to send, to an attestation module in a data processing pipeline associated with the computing device, an indication that the computing device is in the specified state.

Abstract: A method for continuously producing a composite material is disclosed. In some implementations, the method includes supplying a thermoplastic resin having an initial density, mixing polypropylene-graft-maleic anhydride (PPgMA) formed of a plurality of interconnected PPgMA molecules throughout the thermoplastic resin, distributing a plurality of carbon particles throughout the thermoplastic resin and the plurality of interconnected PPgMA molecules, and forming, by rotational molding, the composite material based on a combination of the thermoplastic resin, the PPgMA, and at least some of the plurality of carbon particles.

Abstract: A composite material is provided. In some aspects, the composite material may include a combination of a thermoplastic resin mixed with a polypropylene-graft-maleic anhydride (PPgMA). Carbon particles may be mixed in the combination. In this way, the composite material may include between 80 wt. % and 90 wt. % of the thermoplastic resin, between 0.5 wt. % and 15 wt. % of PPgMA, and between 0.1 wt. % to 7 wt. % of carbon particles. Carbon particles may have exposed carbon surfaces with carbon atoms bonded to molecular sites on adjacent PPgMA molecules. At least some carbon atoms may be oxidized with one or more of oxygen-containing groups. Oxidation of carbon atoms may be associated with an increase in at least some PPgMA molecules chemically bonding with adjacent carbon atoms per unit volume. In this way, interaction between carbon atoms and PPgMA molecules may maintain composite material density within +/?3% of thermoplastic resin density.

Abstract: A method for continuously producing a composite material is disclosed. In some implementations, the method includes supplying a thermoplastic resin having an initial density, mixing polypropylene-graft-maleic anhydride (PPgMA) formed of a plurality of interconnected PPgMA molecules throughout the thermoplastic resin, distributing a plurality of carbon particles throughout the thermoplastic resin and the plurality of interconnected PPgMA molecules, and forming, by rotational molding, the composite material based on a combination of the thermoplastic resin, the PPgMA, and at least some of the plurality of carbon particles.