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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 15, 2016
Applicant:
Mcafee, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventor:
Ahmed Said Sallam, Cupertino, CA (US);
Assignee:
McAfee, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/00 (2013.01); G06F 21/56 (2013.01); G06F 21/57 (2013.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/56 (2013.01); G06F 21/572 (2013.01); G06F 21/6218 (2013.01); H04L 63/0227 (2013.01); H04L 63/1408 (2013.01); G06F 2221/034 (2013.01); G06F 2221/2101 (2013.01); G06F 2221/2141 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system for securing an electronic device includes a non-volatile memory, a processor coupled to the non-volatile memory, a resource of the electronic device, firmware residing in the non-volatile memory and executed by the processor, and a firmware security agent residing in the firmware. The firmware is communicatively coupled to the resource of an electronic device. The firmware security agent is configured to, at a level below all of the operating systems of the electronic device accessing the resource, intercept a request for the resource and determine whether the request is indicative of malware.