Intel Corporation

Mohamed Haniffa

Prashant Dewan

Nivedita Aggarwal

Aditya Katragada

Kenji Chen

Chao B Zhang

Karunakara Kotary

Pannerkumar Rajagopal

Chao Zhang

Sahil Dureja

An apparatus to verify firmware in a computing system, comprising a non-volatile memory, including firmware memory to store agent firmware associated with each of a plurality of interconnect protocol (IP) agents and version memory to store security version numbers (SVNs) included in the agent firmware, a security controller comprising verifier logic to verify an integrity of the version memory by applying a hash algorithm to contents of the version memory to generate a SVN hash, and a trusted platform module (TPM) to store the SVN hash.

Firmware verification mechanism

An apparatus to facilitate memory map security in a system on chip (SOC), is disclosed. The apparatus includes a micro controller to receive a request to grant a host device an access to a memory device and perform an alias checking process to verify accuracy of a memory map of the memory device.

Memory map protection mechanism

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Tamil Nadu, India

Mohamed Haniffa