Abstract: A method to access data includes generating, by at least one hardware processor, a user-defined function (UDF). The UDF includes a file reference object corresponding to at least one file and a file operation configuration. The at least one file is retrieved based on a UDF call into the UDF. The retrieving is further based on the file reference object. A compression status of the at least one file is determined. The UDF call is processed to generate result data using the at least one file. The processing of the UDF call is based on the compression status and the file operation configuration.

Abstract: A method includes decoding, by at least one hardware processor, a request for a user-defined function (UDF). The request includes a reference to one or more files. The method further includes generating, by the at least one hardware processor, the UDF based on the request. The UDF includes a file reference object with file path information corresponding to the reference. The file path information identifies a file path to the one or more files. A UDF call into the UDF is detected. The UDF call specifies the file path information. The UDF call is processed to generate result data using the one or more files.

Abstract: The disclosed technology for a hardware system to access a secure backend system uses non-volatile memory to hold encrypted secrets, volatile memory to hold decrypted secrets ready for use, a keys-for-all (K4A) server, and app servers running K4A clients. To access the backend system in production, each app server uses a decrypted secret and a certificate that identifies the app server and certifies its role and physical and logical location. At initialization of the app server, a K4A client is instantiated that launches and tracks processes, running on the app server, that are authorized to request decryption services. The K4A client responds to a decryption request from an authorized process, determined based on tracking of processes launched, by requesting decryption by a K4A server, using the certificate, and returns to the process, in volatile memory, a decrypted secret or a reference to the decrypted secret, decrypted by the K4A server.

Abstract: The disclosed technology for a hardware system to access a secure backend system uses non-volatile memory to hold encrypted secrets, volatile memory to hold decrypted secrets ready for use, a keys-for-all (K4A) server, and app servers running K4A clients. To access the backend system in production, each app server uses a decrypted secret and a certificate that identifies the app server and certifies its role and physical and logical location. At initialization of the app server, a K4A client is instantiated that launches and tracks processes, running on the app server, that are authorized to request decryption services. The K4A client responds to a decryption request from an authorized process, determined based on tracking of processes launched, by requesting decryption by a K4A server, using the certificate, and returns to the process, in volatile memory, a decrypted secret or a reference to the decrypted secret, decrypted by the K4A server.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for securing access to a computer device, that includes the step of establishing a secured connection and authentication of said computer device and the user of the computer device with a remote server, wherein the steps of establishing the secured connection and authentication are carried out upon the execution of commands included in a data set adapted for implementing the pre-start of the computer device before triggering the execution of the boot loader of the computer device operating system.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for securing access to a computer device, that includes the step of establishing a secured connection and authentication of said computer device and the user of the computer device with a remote server, wherein the steps of establishing the secured connection and authentication are carried out upon the execution of commands included in a data set adapted for implementing the pre-start of the computer device before triggering the execution of the boot loader of the computer device operating system.