International Business Machines Corporation

Kyle Olson

John S Werner

Noah B Singer

Michael T Peets

Matteo Cocchini

Mateusz Koziol

Paul Samaniego

Oswald J Mantilla

Brianna Malcolm

Joseph Scaglione

Steven Leslie Shafer

Abigail E Wise

Timothy Gordon

A tool to facilitate attachment and detachment of cable connectors. The tool includes a backstop plate for engaging a cable connector receptacle housing, an overmold plate for engaging a cable connector being insertibly connected into a cable connector receptacle, and a rotational means passing through a rotational acceptor formed as part of the overmold plate and rotatably attached to the backstop plate. The rotational means causes the overmold plate to approach the backstop plate upon application of a first spin direction of the rotational means and causing the overmold plate to recede from the backstop plate upon application of a second spin direction of the rotational means. The overmold plate approaching the backstop plate causes the engaged cable connector to be insertibly connected into the cable connector receptacle housing and the overmold plate receding from the backstop plate causes the engaged cable connector to be removed.

Rotational cable connector and disconnector tool

A system and method for hardening security within a physical location. At least one cable in the physical location is monitored for errors. In response to detecting an error on the cable a cable fault analysis procedure is performed to determine the location of the fault on the cable. A probability that the fault is caused by a threat actor is calculated based upon the location of the fault on the cable. The probability can be calculated using mixture modules of known nonthreat locations using supervised learning approaches. At least one security protocol at the physical location is implemented in response to the location of the fault having a probability that the fault location is related to a threat actor exceeding a threshold value.

Device security for cable threat actors

A system may include a printed circuit board with a microstrip and a conductive structure surrounding the microstrip. The system may include a probe lead in communication with the conductive structure. The system may include a first contact pad electrically connected to the conductive structure and a second contact pad electrically connected to the conductive structure.

Removable contactless probe

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Lagrangeville, NY, United States of America

Kyle Olson