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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2023
Filed:
Apr. 22, 2020
Crowdstrike, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Timo Kreuzer, Schonberg, DE;
Ion-Alexandru Ionescu, Seattle, WA (US);
Aaron LeMasters, New York, NY (US);
CrowdStrike, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
A bus filter driver and security agent components configured to retrieve and analyze firmware images are described herein. The bus filter driver may attach to a bus device associated with a memory component and retrieve a firmware image of firmware stored on the memory component. The bus filter driver may also retrieve hardware metadata. A kernel-mode component of the security agent may then retrieve the firmware image and hardware metadata from the bus filter driver and provide the firmware image and hardware metadata to a user-mode component of the security agent for security analysis. The security agent components may then provide results of the analysis and/or the firmware image and hardware metadata to a remote security service to determine a security status for the firmware.