US Patent:
20120117348, May 10, 2012
Inventors:
Nicholas D. Triantafillou - Portland OR, US
Paritosh Saxena - Beaverton OR, US
Robert W. Strong - Folsom CA, US
Richard J. Heiler - Folsom CA, US
Eliezer Tamir - Bait Shemesh, IL
Simoni Ben-Michael - Givat Zeev, IL
Brad W. Stewart - Elverta CA, US
Akshay R. Kadam - Bangalore, IN
Men Long - Beaverton OR, US
James T. Doyle - Phoenix AZ, US
Hormuzd M. Khosravi - Portland OR, US
Lokpraveen B. Mosur - Gilbert AZ, US
Edward J. Pullin - Orefiled PA, US
Paul S. Schmitz - North Plains OR, US
Carol L. Barrett - Beaverton OR, US
Paul J. Thadikaran - Rancho Cordova CA, US
International Classification:
G06F 12/14
Abstract:
Techniques for a data storage device to locally implement security management functionality. In an embodiment, a security management process of the data storage device is to determine whether an access to non-volatile media of the data storage device is authorized. In certain embodiments, the data storage device is to restrict access to a secure region of the non-volatile storage media, the secure region to store information used and/or generated by a security management process of the data storage device.