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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 17, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 18, 2022
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Baibhav Singh, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Stephen Elliot McLaughlin, San Jose, CA (US);
Hayawardh Vijayakumar, San Jose, CA (US);
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a request from a lower privileged process executing on a computing device to access a privileged firmware mode of the computing device and accessing a set of access policies for detecting whether the request is an unauthorized access to the privileged firmware mode. The method further includes determining, based on at least part of a content of the request and on the set of access policies, whether the request to access a privileged firmware mode is authorized; and denying or permitting, based on the determination, access by the lower privileged process to the privileged firmware mode.