US 12,225,128 B2
Detection and remediation of unauthorized relocation of storage media
Charles C. Ruffino, Menifee, CA (US); Stephen Hardwick, Austin, TX (US); and Mark Chen, Newark, CA (US)
Assigned to SOFTIRON LIMITED, London (GB)
Filed by SOFTIRON LIMITED, Chilworth (GB)
Filed on May 23, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/750,459.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/192,368, filed on May 24, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0376911 A1, Nov. 24, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04L 9/08 (2006.01)
CPC H04L 9/0897 (2013.01) [H04L 9/083 (2013.01); H04L 9/0858 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus, comprising:
a cryptographic key for encrypting content to be written to a storage media; and
a control circuit configured to:
determine that the storage media has been physically moved; and
based on the determination that the storage media has been physically moved, erase the storage media by deleting the cryptographic key;
wherein: the control circuit is located on a server, the server to include a plurality of intelligent storage media trays, each intelligent storage media tray to include the storage media or one of a plurality of second storage media;
the apparatus further includes one or more second cryptographic keys, each cryptographic key corresponding to one of the second storage media and for encrypting content to be written to and read from the storage media; and
the control circuit is further configured to:
determine that the server unit has been physically moved; and
based on a determination that the server unit has been physically moved, erase the storage media and all the second storage media by deleting the cryptographic key and all of the second cryptographic keys.