Cisco Technology, Inc.

David Sisto Iacobacci

Plamen Nedeltchev

Gautam M Aggarwal

Pedro Leonardo

Parag Pritam Thakore

Helder F Antunes

Anuj Sawani

Max Pritikin

In one embodiment, a device and a services provisioning system establish an over-the-air connection with each other, and perform device posture validation to obtain a unique identification (ID) of the device at the provisioning system. The device and provisioning system then participate in device and user authentication in response to a confirmed unique ID by a backend access control system, where the device generates a secure key pair after successful user authentication. In response to the device being approved for services (e.g., checked by the provisioning system via a registration system), the provisioning system provides a root certificate to the device, and the device sends a certificate enrollment request back to the provisioning system. In response to a certificate authority signing the certificate request, the provisioning system returns a valid certificate to the device, and the valid certificate is installed on the device.

Secure over-the-air provisioning solution for handheld and desktop devices and services

Secure over-the-air provisioning for handheld and desktop devices and services

According to an approach for securely deploying and configuring network devices, a secure introduction connection is established between a network device being deployed and a registrar. The secure introduction connection may conform to a secure communications protocol, such as HTTPS. The registrar provides bootstrap configuration data to the network device over the secure introduction connection. The bootstrap configuration data is used to establish a secure management connection between the network device and a secure management gateway. The secure management connection may conform to a secure communications protocol, such as IPsec or HTTPS. The secure management gateway provides user-specific configuration data and security policy data to the network device over the secure management connection. The user-specific configuration data and policy data are used to establish a secure data connection, such as a Dynamic Multipoint Virtual Private Network (DMVPN) connection, between the network device and the secure data gateway.

Approach for securely deploying network devices

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David Sisto Iacobacci