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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2024
Filed:
Apr. 25, 2022
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Shekar Babu Suryanarayana, Bangalore, IN;
Sumanth Vidyadhara, Bangalore, IN;
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
A vulnerability management method acquires, during an OS runtime of an information handling system, vulnerability information indicating potentially vulnerable resources of the system. Disclosed methods calculate a vulnerability determination code (VDC) based on the vulnerability information. The VDC may indicate a scan zone that includes one or more scan zone components. Each component may correspond to a region of a potentially vulnerable resource. After a system reset, disclosed methods may perform a vulnerability aware (VA) boot sequence. The VA boot sequence may include, prior to booting a runtime operating system, determining, in accordance with the vulnerability information, whether to perform a comprehensive vulnerability detection (CVD) boot. A CVD boot refers to a boot sequence configured to boot a distinct operating system dedicated to performing a targeted vulnerability assessment that includes scanning the scan zone components indicated by the VDC. This dedicated OS may be implemented as an embedded OS (EOS).