GLOBAL PLATFORM HEALTH MANAGEMENT

摘要

The use of one or more device health values to indicate the health status of a computing device may enable operating system developers to directly manage the security configuration of the computing device. The generation of a device health value involves initializing hardware components of a computing device and loading the operating system according to configuration settings during boot up of the computing device. The device health value is then generated based on a state of the hardware component and/or a state of a software stack that includes the operating system at boot up. The device health value may be compared to a reference health value to determine whether the computing device is in a secured state.

主权项

1. One or more computer-readable media storing computer-executable instructions that upon execution cause one or more processors to perform acts comprising:
initializing one or more hardware components in a hardware platform of a reference device according to hardware configuration settings that are approved by a developer of an operating system (OS); loading the OS on the reference device according to one or more OS configuration settings that are approved by the developer of the OS; and generating one or more reference health values at the initializing of the hardware platform and the loading of the OS of the reference device, the one or more reference health values representing that the reference device has a secured state.