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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 06, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2015
Mcafee, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Ward Coburn, Tigard, OR (US);
Harvir Singh, Portland, OR (US);
McAfee, LLC, Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
There is disclosed in one example, a computing apparatus, having: first one or more logic elements comprising at least a processor and a memory to provide an operational environment; and second one or more logic elements providing an out-of-band management engine to function independently of the operational environment, and to: provide an out-of-band communication driver; determine that the operational environment has encountered an error that inhibits network communication; receive security content from a server via the out-of-band communication driver into a third-party storage area; and apply the security content to the computing apparatus. There is also disclosed a method of providing an out-of-band management engine, and one or more tangible, non-transitory computer-readable storage mediums having stored instructions for providing an out-of-band management engine.