US 12,223,067 B2
Secure data collection from an air-gapped network
Cody Wolf, Zug (CH); Sreenevas Subramaniam, Dublin, CA (US); Séverin Launiau, Cary, NC (US); Luke Andrew Kasper, Lansdale, PA (US); Evan Orgel, Edison, NJ (US); and Ryan Craig Zulli, Rockaway, NJ (US)
Assigned to ServiceNow, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US)
Filed by ServiceNow, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US)
Filed on Mar. 8, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/600,245.
Application 18/600,245 is a continuation of application No. 17/230,767, filed on Apr. 14, 2021, granted, now 11,954,211.
Prior Publication US 2024/0256683 A1, Aug. 1, 2024
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06F 21/60 (2013.01); G06F 9/445 (2018.01); G06F 21/10 (2013.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01)
CPC G06F 21/604 (2013.01) [G06F 9/44505 (2013.01); G06F 21/105 (2013.01); G06F 21/6218 (2013.01); G06F 21/107 (2023.08); G06F 2221/2141 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
collecting configuration item data from information technology resources of an air-gapped network for an information technology configuration management database;
filtering the collected configuration item data using a specified item data property including by automatically identifying a collected information of interest about a discovered information technology asset among the collected configuration item data and irreversibly modifying the collected information of interest about the discovered information technology asset included in the collected configuration item data;
based on a type of content that has been modified in the collected information of interest, determining a new automatic rule indicating the type of content to be avoided during a future data collection; and
storing at least a portion of the filtered collected configuration item data on a portable physical storage medium within the air-gapped network.