Dell Products Inc.

Emc IP Holding Company LLC

Dell & Products L.p.

Chandrashekar Nelogal

Kevin Thomas Marks

James Peter Giannoules

Gary Benedict Kotzur

William Emmett Lynn

Austin Patrick Bolen

Rama Rao Bisa

Viswanath Ponnuru

Chandrasekhar Mugunda

Shinose Abdul Rahiman

Dharma Bhushan Ramaiah

Sanjeev Dambal

Syama Poluri

Vineeth Radhakrishnan

David Michael Pereira

Mukund Purshottam Khatri

Chitrak Gupta

Santosh Hanamant Gore

Lee Eric Ballard

Raveendra Babu Madala

Vijay Bharat Nijhawan

Krishnaprasad Koladi

Mini Thottunkal Thankappan

Manjunath Vishwanath

Karthikeyan Rajagopalan

Marshal F Savage

Parmeshwr Prasad

Vadhiraj Sankaranarayanan

Balaji Bapu Gururaja Rao

Deepu Syam Sreedhar M

Kiran Kumar Devarapalli

Marcelo Silva Saraiva

Anusha Bhaskar

Niladri Bhattacharya

John R Sieber

Arunava Das Gupta

Heerak Sudhir Kumar Surti

Samir Paitod

Rahul Deo Vishwakarma

Yogesh Prabhakar Kulkarni

Eugene David Cho

Haesung Kwon

Jason Matthew Young

Sundar Dasar

Cyril Jose

Sushma Basavarajaiah

Pavan Kumar Gavvala

Surender V Brahmaroutu

Frank Widjaja Yu

Manjunath Am

Sandeep Agarwal

Divya Vijayvargiya

Gobind Vijayakumar

Akshata Sheshagiri Naik

Craig Phelps

Anand Nunna

Choudary Maddukuri

Muniswamy Setty K S

Abhijit Rajkumar Khande

Krishnaprasad K

Amit Pratap Singh

Diwahar Natarajan

Huijun Xie

Sujit Jadhav

Karan Singh Gandhi

Swathi Prasad Neti

Texas Roemer

Gary E Billingsley

Muniswamy Setty

Balaji B Rao

Sura Reddy

Vineeth Radharisknan

Santosh Kumar Sarangi

Chandrashekara Lingaiah Nagaratna

Sisir K Dash

Prakash Balasaheb Pawar

Pavan Kumar G

Bang Kim Le

A node for a VSAN includes a BMC, a processor, and a plurality of VSAN objects. The processor instantiates a Cluster Membership, Monitoring, and Directory Service (CMMDS) and a BMC Service Module (SM). The CMMDS implements a Security Policy and Data Model (SPDM) architecture. The CMMDS determines an inventory list of the VSAN objects and a SPDM authentication state for each of the objects, and provides the inventory list and the SPDM authentication states to the BMC SM. The BMC SM provides the inventory list and the SPDM authentication state to the BMC. The BMC determines that a first VSAN object is not authenticated based upon the SPDM authentication state of the first VSAN object, and directs the CMMDS to halt input/output (I/O) operations on the VSAN to the first VSAN object.

Secure VSAN cluster using device authentication and integrity measurements

According to embodiments of the present disclosure, systems and methods to advertise Security Protocol and Data Model (SPDM) command timing requirements are provided. According to one embodiment, an Information Handling System (IHS) includes a requester and a responder conforming to a SPDM specification in which the responder is configured with computer-executable logic to, in response to a request from a requester, generate an estimated amount of time to process a SPDM command, and send the estimated amount of time to the requester in response to the request. The requester may then wait the estimated amount of time between sending each of multiple ensuing commands to the responder.

Systems and methods to advertise SPDM command timing requirements

Systems and methods provide for SPDM-enabled devices that conform to an SPDM specification. An SPDM-enabled device receives a request to provision a certificate chain on the device and sends an event notification message to a baseboard management controller. The event notification message indicates receipt of a request to provision a certificate chain in a slot on the SPDM-enabled device. The baseboard management controller evaluates the certificate chain against the device manufacturer's certificate profile policy. If the certificate chain is valid, then a validation successful message is sent to the SPDM-enabled device, which in turn sends a certificate provision response to a requesting device. If the certificate chain is not valid, then a validation failure message is sent to the SPDM-enabled device, which causes the SPDM-enabled device to enter a quarantine state.

Trusted and validated platform device certificate provisioning using security protocol data model (SPDM)

A method for managing a storage system includes initiating, by a hardware resource manager, a boot-up of a storage controller managing the storage system comprising a plurality of storage devices, making a determination, by the storage controller, that the storage controller is in a secured mode, based on the determination: identifying a security state of each of the plurality of storage devices, determining that a storage device of the plurality of storage devices is in an unsecured state, and based on the unsecured state, sending, by the storage controller, a security operation request for securing the storage device, obtaining a secure state response from the hardware resource manager corresponding to securing the storage device, and based on the secure state response, resuming operation of the storage controller based on the secure mode.

Method and system for a secure management of storage devices using a key management service

A storage enclosure of an information handling system includes multiple storage drives, and an expander device. The storage drives include one or more self-encrypting drives (SEDs). The expander device determines whether a SED enables a power disable capability. In response to detection that the SED enables the power disable capability, the expander device monitors a link status between the information handling system and the storage enclosure. In response to a link status change being detected, the expander device waits a period of time and determines the link status after the period of time. If the link status is link down, the expander device implements a power cycle in the storage drives. After the power cycle of the storage drives, the expander device sets the drives to a locked state.

Storage device power control by expander device based on a data security policy

A method for authenticating a peripheral device, that includes detecting, by a baseboard management controller (BMC), a presence of the peripheral device, receiving authentication credentials from the peripheral device, making a determination, based on the authentication credentials, that the peripheral device is authentic, and sending, in response to the determination, a command to open a peripheral communication channel with the peripheral device.

Systems and methods for peripheral device security

According to embodiments of the present disclosure, systems and methods to manage Security Protocol and Data Model (SPDM) secure communication sessions are provided. According to one embodiment, an Information Handling System (IHS) includes a Security Protocol and Data Model (SPDM)-enabled device conforming to a SPDM specification in which the SPDM-enabled device has a specified quantity of supported private communication sessions. The IHS also includes computer-executable instructions to, when an application requests use of one of the private communication sessions, determine whether one of the private communication sessions is available, and enable the application to communicate with the SPDM-enabled device through the one private communication session based on the determination.

Systems and methods to manage security protocol and data model (SPDM) secure communication sessions

Method and system for a conditional key storage using network information of a key management service

In general, embodiments of the invention relate to a method and system for managing a storage system. In many traditional implementations host bus adapter (HBA) manages the storage device, however frequently the HBA cannot implement the necessary methods to secure a self-encrypting drive (SED). One or more embodiments of the invention use a baseboard management controller (BMC) to manage the security of the SEDs as well as the security life cycle of the SEDs, while the HBA acts as a passthrough conduit between the SED and BMC.

Securing SEDs behind a HBA controllers with a passthrough mechanism using BMC

A system for data processing, comprising a management controller operating on a processor and configured to load and execute one or more algorithms that provide the function of transmitting a request to a managed device using a Security Protocol and Data Model (SPDM) protocol and to receive a response from the managed device. A system management bus and security policy system operating on the processor is configured to execute one or more algorithms to process the response from the managed device to apply an SPDM security policy to the response.

Certificate authorization policy for security protocol and data model capable devices

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.

System and method for device authentication using a baseboard management controller (BMC)

Method and system for a conditional key storage in a hardware resource manager

Systems and methods provide validation of hardware components of an IHS (Information Handling System). An attestation certificate stored to the IHS specifies authenticated instructions for operation of a hardware component of the IHS. This attestation certificate is endorsed by a self-signed root attestation certificate. An identity certificate, also stored to the IHS, specifies an identity of the hardware component and is endorsed using an embedded keypair of the hardware component. The root attestation certificate is validated to ensure it corresponds to the hardware component specified in the identity certificate, where this validation confirms that a public key included in the identity certificate is identical to a public key included in the attestation certificate. Through use of the same public key by both certificates, the attestation certificate can be validated as corresponding to the identity certificate without accessing the embedded keypair of the hardware component used to sign the identity certificate.

Split chain of digital certificates for supply chain integrity

A system and method are disclosed for delegating, by a resource-constrained device, a privilege to a basic input/output system, wherein the privilege allows the basic input/output system to authenticate an endpoint device on behalf of the resource-constrained device. The system and method also includes generating an asymmetric security key that includes a private key and a public key and transmitting the public key to the basic input/output system, wherein the public key is included in a proxy certificate generated by the basic input/output system. In addition, the system and method includes establishing a secure session between the basic input/output system and the endpoint device using the private key and the proxy certificate, wherein the secure session is used by the basic input/output system to authenticate and verify that the endpoint device is authorized to perform an operation.

Proxy authentication for resource-constrained device

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Chandrashekar Nelogal