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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 20, 2024
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Dinesh C. Verma, New Castle, NY (US);
Gerald Coon, Durham, NC (US);
Mathews Thomas, Flower Mound, TX (US);
Satishkumar Sadagopan, Leawood, KS (US);
Utpal Mangla, Toronto, CA;
Pawan Raghunath Chowdhary, San Jose, CA (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Air-gapped security for a remote-managed site is provide through a system and related methods, the system including a switch component having at least one network switch, a staging component to stage data for communication between a first site, as a management site, and second site, as a target site to be managed by the management site, a mechanical component to selectively, physically connect and disconnect wired communication links to and from the switch component, and a control component to operate the mechanical component to physically disconnect a wired communication link to air-gap one site from the other site and the staging component as a prerequisite to physically connecting another wired communication link between the other site and the staging component via the switch component. Through selective connection and disconnection, secure provision of data between the first site and second site via the intermediate system is provided.