SYSTEM, APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING DATA SECURITY USING USB DEVICE

• US 20080046751A1
• Filed: 09/22/2006
• Published: 02/21/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 08/14/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Advanced Digital Chips, Inc. (Nortel Networks Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Advanced Digital Chips, Inc. (Nortel Networks Corporation)
• Inventors: Choi, In Chul
• Application Number:
  US11/534,284
• Publication Number:
  US 20080046751A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 713/185
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/34 involving the use of external additional devices, e.g. dongles or smart cards
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/602 Providing cryptographic facilities or services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0853 using an additional device, e.g. smartcard, SIM or a different communication terminal cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication involving additional secure or trusted devices H04L9/3234
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0861 using biometrical features, e.g. fingerprint, retina-scan cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication using biological data H04L9/3231

Abstract

Disclosed is a data security system using a USB device for maintaining security for files made while various kinds of application programs are used. The data security system comprises: a local computer having the various kinds of application programs installed therein and performing various works by executing the installed various kinds of application programs; and a USB device connected to the local computer via a USB communicating means, wherein, when the USB device is connected to the local computer, a security program is automatically installed from the USB device into the local computer, and the automatically-installed security program performs a security service for works in the local computer.

Claims

1. A data security system using a USB device for maintaining security for files made while various kinds of application programs are used, comprising:

a local computer having the various kinds of application programs installed therein and performing various works by executing the installed various kinds of application programs; and

a USB device connected to the local computer via a USB communicating means, wherein, when the USB device is connected to the local computer, a security program is automatically installed from the USB device into the local computer, and the automatically-installed security program performs a security service for works in the local computer.

2. The data security system according to claim 1, further comprising a management server for receiving work-related information via a network after completion of authentication through the security program installed from the USB device.

3. The data security system according to claim 1, further comprising a remote computer remotely connected to the local computer via a network, the remote computer monitoring a work situation of the local computer and controlling the local computer remotely.

4. The data security system according to claim 1, wherein the security program automatically installed in the local computer requests the USB device to provide authentication information to the local computer and authenticates the works in the local computer when the local computer receives the authentication information from the USB device.

5. The data security system according to claim 4, wherein the authentication information comprises user fingerprint information input through a fingerprint authentication means included in the USB device.

6. The data security system according to claim 4, wherein, if the authentication through the USB device is not normally performed, an output signal of a monitor is interrupted by the security program automatically installed in the local computer.

7. The data security system according to claim 1, wherein the security program automatically installed in the local computer codes and stores the files made in the process of work through the various kinds of application programs executed in the local computer.

8. The data security system according to claim 7, wherein the security program automatically installed in the local computer decodes the files coded and stored in the local computer in order to allow a user to read the files.

9. The data security system according to claim 1, wherein the security program automatically installed in the local computer generates work history information in the process of work through the various kinds of application programs executed in the local computer and transmits the generated work history information to a management server connected to a network.

10. The data security system according to claim 1, wherein the USB device includes an RF module to perform authentication through RF communication, the RF module being used for an admission ticket of a building.

11. A data security apparatus for maintaining security for files made while an application program installed in a local computer is used, comprising:

a first storing part that stores an automatic execution program to be automatically installed in the local computer when the data security apparatus is connected to the local computer;

a port that provides a connecting point between the data security apparatus and the local computer;

a USB hub that includes a switching function for communication connection control for controlling connection between the data security apparatus and the local computer;

a virtual CD-ROM driver that controls the data security device to be recognized as a virtual CD-ROM device when the data security device is connected to the local computer; and

a first controller that is connected to the local computer through the USB hub and drives the virtual CD-ROM driver to control the local computer to recognize the data security apparatus as the virtual CD-ROM device.

12. The data security apparatus according to claim 11, further comprising a second storing part that stores an image captured and compressed when work is performed in the local computer.

13. The data security apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the first storing part and the second storing part are used as two regions into which one memory is divided.

14. The data security apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the automatic execution program automatically installed in the local computer requests the data security apparatus to provide authentication information to the local computer and authenticates work in the local computer when the local computer receives the authentication information from the data security apparatus.

15. The data security apparatus according to claim 14, further comprising a fingerprint authentication means that receives fingerprint information from a user and transmits the received fingerprint information to the local computer for user authentication.

16. The data security apparatus according to claim 14, wherein, if the authentication through the data security apparatus is not normally performed, an output signal of a monitor is interrupted by the automatic execution program automatically installed in the local computer.

17. The data security apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the automatic execution program automatically installed in the local computer codes and stores the files made in the process of work through the application program executed in the local computer.

18. The data security apparatus according to claim 17, wherein the automatic execution program automatically installed in the local computer decodes the files coded and stored in the local computer in order to allow the user to read the files.

19. The data security apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the automatic execution program automatically installed in the local computer generates work history information in the process of work through the application program executed in the local computer and transmits the generated work history information to a management server connected to the local computer via a network.

20. The data security apparatus according to claim 11, further comprising an RF module to perform authentication through RF communication, the RF model being used for an admission ticket of a building.

21. A data security method for maintaining security for files made while an application program installed in a local computer is used, comprising the steps of:

connecting a USB device to the local computer and receiving at the local computer an automatic execution program from the USB device;

automatically installing and executing the received automatic execution program in the local computer;

requesting a user to input user fingerprint information and authenticating the user based on the input user fingerprint information;

after completion of the authentication, executing the application program installed in the local computer and performing a work in the local computer; and

coding and storing the files made in the work according to the automatic execution program automatically installed in the local computer.

22. The data security method according to claim 21, further comprising the steps of:

capturing a work screen in the process of work according to the automatic execution program; and

compressing and storing the captured work screen.

23. The data security method according to claim 22, further comprising the step of:

after the step of storing the captured work screen, transmitting the compressed and stored work screen to a management server connected to the local computer via a network.

24. The data security method according to claim 22, further comprising the step of:

after the step of storing the captured work screen, transmitting the compressed and stored work screen to the USB device connected to the local computer through USB communication means.

25. The data security method according to claim 21, further comprising the steps of:

generating and storing work history information in the process of work according to the automatic execution program; and

transmitting the generated and stored work history information to a management server connected to the local computer via a network.

26. The data security method according to claim 21, wherein the automatic execution program automatically installed in the local computer decodes the files coded and stored in the local computer in order to allow the user to read the files.

27. The data security method according to claim 21, wherein, if the authentication through the USB device is not normally performed, an output signal of a monitor is interrupted by the automatic execution program automatically installed in the local computer.