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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 06, 2015
AO Kaspersky Lab, Moscow, RU;
Vitaly S. Alexeev, Moscow, RU;
Dmitry V. Bavykin, Moscow, RU;
Alexander V. Fedorov, Moscow, RU;
Evgeny A. Gleyzerman, Moscow, RU;
Alexey V. Ilyushin, Moscow, RU;
Lev A. Kazarkin, Moscow, RU;
Evgeniya P. Kirikova, Moscow, RU;
Alexey A. Kutumov, Moscow, RU;
Gleb Y. Molaev, Moscow, RU;
Ilya A. Tereshchenko, Moscow, RU;
Evgeny A. Yakovlev, Moscow, RU;
AO Kaspersky Lab, Moscow, RU;
Abstract
Disclosed are systems and method or updating full disk encryption (FDE) software on a computer. An example method comprises: blocking operations of the FDE software on a boot drive of the computer; installing one or more components of the updated FDE software; deploying an updated pre-boot compatibility verification component of updated FDE software; rebooting the computer and executing, before booting of an operating system, the updated pre-boot compatibility verification component; determining, by the updated pre-boot compatibility verification component, a compatibility of the boot disk with the updated FDE software without decrypting and encrypting the boot disk of the computer by the updated FDE software; if the boot disk is determined to be compatible with the updated FDE software, authenticating a computer user and booting the operating system of the computer; and unblocking one or more operations of the updated FDE software on the boot drive.