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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 02, 2016
The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (US);
David C. Challener, Raleigh, NC (US);
Peter S. Kruus, Clarksville, MD (US);
Russell A. Fink, Laurel, MD (US);
James F. Farlow, Mt. Airy, MD (US);
The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (US);
Abstract
A method for providing malware protection in connection with processing circuitry including hardware resources and software resources managed by a primary operating system may include providing a trusted operating system to control access to a portion of a local storage area of the hardware resources. In this context, only the trusted operating system is configured to enable writing to the portion of the local storage area. The method may further include storing backup files for the primary operating system in the portion of the local storage area responsive to the trusted operating system granting access to write to the portion of the local storage area.