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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 12, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2015
Applicant:
Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US);
Inventor:
Michael Paul DeHaan, Morrisville, NC (US);
Assignee:
Red Hat, Inc., Realeigh, NC (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 8/61 (2018.01); G06F 8/60 (2018.01); G06F 21/53 (2013.01); G06F 21/60 (2013.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 8/62 (2013.01); G06F 8/60 (2013.01); G06F 21/53 (2013.01); G06F 21/60 (2013.01); H04L 41/0806 (2013.01);
Abstract
A provisioning server can provide and interact with an eraser agent on target machines. The eraser agent can execute on one or more target machines to erase all the contents of storage on the target machines. In particular, the eraser agent can utilize secure algorithms to alter and obscure the information stored the storage devices of the target machines. The provisioning server can instruct the target machines to alter their power state (e.g. power cycle), if necessary, to provide and to initiate the eraser agent.