Patent ID: 11941159
Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 5:
6. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing thereon instructions that, when executed, cause a processor of a computing device to:
read security information from first storage of the computing device, the security information for use on start-up of the computing device;
determine, based on a comparison of the security information stored on the first storage of the computing device with a copy of the security information stored on a second storage of the computing device that the computing device has been compromised, wherein the copy of the security information is a previously made copy of the security information stored on the second storage of the computing device, wherein the second storage further stores secret data, and wherein the second storage is not the same as the first storage; and
in response to the determination that the computing device has been compromised, delete the secret data.