Authentication-based and hardware-based lockdown features for a memory system

Abstract

In some implementations, a memory system may receive a lockdown command associated with one or more operations of the memory system, wherein the lockdown command indicates, for each operation: whether the operation is to be locked down using an authentication-based lockdown feature, and whether the operation is to be locked down using a hardware-based lockdown feature. The memory system may perform at least one of: storing a first lockdown configuration associated with a first operation in an authentication-key-protected portion of the memory system when the lockdown command indicates that the first operation is to be locked down using the authentication-based lockdown feature; or storing a second lockdown configuration associated with a second operation in a hardware-pin-protected portion of the memory system when the lockdown command indicates that the second operation is to be locked down using the hardware-based lockdown feature.