Samsung Patents a Chip-Tied Authentication Key System for Secure Storage
Samsung is patenting a way to generate authentication keys that are cryptographically bound to a specific chip's unique identifier — meaning a…
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Red Hat Patents a Cloud-to-Local Secrets Manager Topology Migrator
Migrating sensitive credentials off the cloud without scrambling how they're organized is a real operational headache — and Red Hat thinks it…
IBM Patents a Version-Control System for Security Configs in Container Platforms
Managing security configurations across hundreds of containers is a known headache in modern cloud infrastructure. IBM's new patent tries to bring version…
IBM Patents a System That Automatically Finds Sensitive Data Hiding in Databases
Most companies don't actually know where all their sensitive data lives — it's buried somewhere between the app your employees use and…
IBM Patents a Gesture-Based Authentication System Using Machine Learning
Forget passwords or fingerprints — IBM is exploring whether the way *you* move your hand in space could be enough to prove…
IBM Patents an AI System That Flags IT Config Policy Gaps Automatically
Manually auditing whether a sprawling cloud environment actually follows your security policies is tedious, error-prone work. IBM's new patent describes an AI…
IBM Patents a Secret Manager for Locking Down Cloud Workload Credentials
Every time a cloud app spins up, it needs passwords, API keys, and certificates — and those secrets are often the weakest…
Google Patents a Sandboxed Ad Auction System Built on Trusted Execution Environments
Google is patenting a way to run ad auctions inside hardware-enforced sandboxes so that the code doing the bidding can never leak…
Google Patents a System That Grabs Abandoned Domains Before Hackers Can
Forgotten subdomains are a surprisingly common attack vector — a company decommissions a cloud service but leaves the DNS record pointing nowhere,…
Google Patents a Phone Incognito Mode That Swaps Your Cellular Identity
Browsers have had incognito mode for years — Google now wants to bring that same concept to your phone's cellular identity, swapping…
Microsoft Patents a Dynamic Compliance-Checking System for App Data Access
Before an app can touch sensitive data, Microsoft's new patent wants to check whether that app is actually playing by the rules…
Microsoft Patents a Key Rotation System That Never Exposes Your Encrypted Data
Rotating encryption keys is a security best practice — but doing it usually means either holding onto old keys or laboriously re-encrypting…
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