NETWORK SECURITY SYSTEMS AND METHODS

摘要

This disclosure relates to systems and methods for managing connected devices and associated network connections. In certain embodiments, trust, privacy, safety, and/or security of information communicated between connected devices may be established in part through use of security associations and/or shared group tokens. In some embodiments, these security associations may be used to form an explicit private network associated with the user. A user may add and/or manage devices included in the explicit private network through management of various security associations associated with the network's constituent devices.

主权项

1. A method of managing a first connected device comprising:
receiving, at a communications interface of a first connected device from a second connected device associated with a first entity, a request to update a security association record stored in a non-transitory computer readable storage medium included in the first connected device; determining, based on the security association record, that the first connected device is not associated with an entity; receiving, at the communications interface of the first connected device from the second connected device, a first group token associated with the first entity; updating the security association record to indicate that the first connected device is associated with the first entity; receiving a message from a third connected device, the message comprising a second group token; determining that the first group token and the second group token are the same; and updating the security association record to indicate that the third connected device is associated with the first entity.