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Integral security apparatus for remotely placed network devices

  • US 7,295,112 B2
  • Filed: 04/04/2005
  • Issued: 11/13/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/04/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An apparatus, comprising:

  • a sensor;

    a signal conditioning module comprising logic for processing a signal sent by the sensor, the signal indicative of tampering; and

    a motherboard comprising a central processing unit responsive to the signal conditioning module receiving the signal indicative of tampering to send a message to a monitoring device;

    wherein the central processing unit is responsive to determining that the central processing unit is coupled to a network to authenticate with an authentication server coupled to the network; and

    wherein the central processing unit is further responsive to maintenance requests, the central processing unit sending sensitive data to the network before the maintenance is performed and the central processing unit restoring the sensitive data when the maintenance is completed and after re-authentication.

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