Abstract: Various approaches for providing intermediary threat detection. In some cases, the intermediary threat detection is performed by a communication control port that operatively couples with a portable computing device to protect the portable computing device from network based vulnerabilities and exploits.

Abstract: Various approaches for providing intermediary threat detection. In some cases, the intermediary threat detection is performed by a communication control port that operatively couples with a portable computing device to protect the portable computing device from network based vulnerabilities and exploits.

Abstract: Systems and methods for authenticating a user by a combination of the user's fingerprint and a tactile pattern are provided. According to one embodiment, a computing device captures a tactile pattern that is drawn by a user's finger on a touch panel that is operationally connected to the computing device. The computing device captures one or more fingerprints of the user using a fingerprint reader component of the computing device at one or more locations on the touch panel while the user is drawing the tactile pattern. The computing device matches the captured tactile pattern and fingerprints with a stored tactile pattern and fingerprints and authenticates the user if both the captured tactile pattern and fingerprints match with the stored tactile pattern and fingerprints.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for mitigating obsolete file format based attacks. In one embodiment, a security device captures a file on a computer or to be transmitted to the computer. The security device checks the format of the file and determines whether the file format is obsolete. The security device takes an action on the file when the file format is determined to be obsolete.

Abstract: Systems and methods for authenticating a user by a combination of the user's fingerprint and a tactile pattern are provided. According to one embodiment, a computing device captures a tactile pattern that is drawn by a user's finger on a touch panel that is operationally connected to the computing device. The computing device captures one or more fingerprints of the user using a fingerprint reader component of the computing device at one or more locations on the touch panel while the user is drawing the tactile pattern. The computing device matches the captured tactile pattern and fingerprints with a stored tactile pattern and fingerprints and authenticates the user if both the captured tactile pattern and fingerprints match with the stored tactile pattern and fingerprints.