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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 02, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 02, 2014
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Kurt D. Gillespie, Pflugerville, TX (US);
Gregory S. Hudgins, Round Rock, TX (US);
David Wade Smith, Leander, TX (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
A method comprising may include storing, in a BIOS comprising a program of instructions executable by the processor and configured to cause the processor to initialize one or more information handling resources of an information handling system, a hardware profile of the information handling system, the hardware profile comprising identifying information of one or more information handling resources of the information handling system recorded during creation of the hardware profile. The method may also include, during a boot of the information handling system in a hardware verification mode, creating a new hardware profile comprising identifying information of the one or more information handling resources, comparing the new hardware profile to the hardware profile stored in the BIOS, and if the new hardware profile differs from the hardware profile stored in the BIOS, issuing an alert indicating potential tampering with hardware of the information handling system after creation of the profile.