Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.P.

Scott B Marcak

Christopher H Stewart

Baraneedharan Anbazhagan

Mark A Piwonka

Richard A Bramley, Jr

Rosilet Retnamoni Braduke

Dallas M Barlow

Patrick L Gibbons

Jason Spottswood

Stanley Hyojun Park

Christopher Ham

Christopher H Ham

Richard A Bramley Jr

A computer system includes an independent compute core; and an isolated secure data storage device to store data accessible only to the independent compute core. The independent compute core is to open an Application Program Interface (API) during runtime of the computer system in response to receiving a verified message containing secure data to be written to the secure data storage device.

Securely writing data to a secure data storage device during runtime

Examples associated with boot data validity are described. One example includes determining whether NVRAM boot data structure is valid. When the NVRAM boot data structure is valid, a NVRAM boot data structure validity flag is set to indicate the boot data structure is invalid. The validity flag is set to indicate the NVRAM boot data structure is valid once a point in a startup process is reached that indicates the startup process will complete successfully. When the NVRAM boot data structure is invalid, errors identified in the NVRAM boot data structure are repaired, and the startup process is restarted.

Boot data validity

In one example of the present disclosure, a computing system is provided. The computing system is to initiate a power on self-test (POST) process, determine that a change has been made to system firmware configuration data, start a timer, and determine that the timer has expired. Thereafter, the computing system is to power-off and power-on the computing system, replace current system firmware configuration data with backup system firmware configuration data, and/or generate a notification indicating system firmware configuration data has been reverted.

System firmware configuration data

There is provided a system and method for programming a data storage device with a password. Specifically, there is provided a method comprising initiating a password programming routine for a data storage device, and programming the data storage device with the password associated with an external storage medium, wherein the data storage device is configured to condition access to the data stored on the data storage device based on the password.

System and method for programming a data storage device with a password

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Scott B Marcak