Mechanisms to secure data on hard reset of device
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1. A method, comprising:
- detecting an attempt to process an operation of the operating system;
preventing the operation from processing on a device and forcing execution of a customized hardware interrupt service on the device;
requesting, by the customized hardware interrupt service, an entered credential;
verifying, by the customized hardware interrupt service, the entered credential for the device before passing the operation to the operating system for processing on the device; and
ignoring, by the customized hardware interrupt service, the attempt to process the operation after a time duration during which the entered credential is undetected.
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Abstract
Mechanisms to secure data on a hard reset of a device are provided. A hard reset request is detected on a handheld device. Before the hard reset is permitted to process an additional security compliance check is made. Assuming, the additional security compliance check is successful and before the hard reset is processed, the data of the handheld device is backed up to a configurable location.
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1. A method, comprising:
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detecting an attempt to process an operation of the operating system; preventing the operation from processing on a device and forcing execution of a customized hardware interrupt service on the device; requesting, by the customized hardware interrupt service, an entered credential; verifying, by the customized hardware interrupt service, the entered credential for the device before passing the operation to the operating system for processing on the device; and ignoring, by the customized hardware interrupt service, the attempt to process the operation after a time duration during which the entered credential is undetected. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A method, comprising:
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identifying a hard reset device operation that is attempting to process on a device and forcing execution of a customized hardware interrupt service on the device before a kernel process of an operating system (OS) of the device can process the hard reset device operation; enforcing, by the customized hardware interrupt service that is processing at a highest priority available to a kernel of the OS, a security policy on the device before the hard reset device operation is processed on the device; and permitting, by the customized hardware interrupt service, the hard reset device operation to process on the device once the security policy is satisfied by passing the hard reset device operation back to the kernel process for processing the reset device operation. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14)
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15. A system, comprising:
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a processor; a customized hardware interrupt service; and a validator module, the validated module operable to;
(i) execute on the processor at a highest priority that is available to a kernel of an Operating System being of the processor, (ii) stop execution of an operation associated with the OS by forcing execution of the customized hardware interrupt service on the processor before a kernel process of the OS takes control of the operation for processing, and (iii) validate an entered credential before permitting the operation to be passed to the kernel process. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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