VALIDATING SECURE ASSEMBLY AND DELIVERY OF INFORMATION HANDLING SYSTEMS

Abstract: various embodiments provide methods for validating secure assembly and delivery of an ihs (information handling system) by confirming that the detected hardware components of the ihs include only factory installed hardware components. during factory provisioning of an ihs, an inventory certificate is uploaded to the ihs, where the inventory certificate includes an inventory that identifies the hardware components installed during factory assembly of the ihs. an inventory is collected of the detected hardware components of the ihs. the collected inventory is compared against the inventory from the inventory certificate in order to validate the detected hardware components of the ihs as the same hardware components that were installed during factory assembly of the ihs. embodiments provide a customer receiving an ihs with a capability of validating that a delivered ihs includes only factory installed hardware components.

Inventor(s): Jason Matthew Young, Marshal F. Savage, Mukund P. Khatri

CPC Classification: G06F21/44 (Program or device authentication)

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