Patent ID: 11916872
Assignee: CRYPTO4A TECHNOLOGIES INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC H

Claim 4:
5. An integrated network security zoning appliance operable to implement a network architecture having distinct network security zones, the appliance comprising:
two or more hardware-integrated processing engines each operable to implement a corresponding network-related resource associated with a respective one of the network security zones;
one or more integrated digital data processors operable to execute said processing engines;
one or more integrated data storage resources accessible to said processing engines to implement each said corresponding network-related resource;
an integrated location sensor; and
an integrated multi-zone hardware security module (HSM) having a plurality of hardware ports associated therewith and configured to define in hardware multiple data routing paths embedded therein and operatively interconnecting said hardware ports;
wherein said HSM is hardwired via respective ones of said hardware ports to interface with respective ones of said processing engines to electronically receive input zone-specific cryptographic data therefrom to initiate execution of an internal cryptographic process as a function thereof and as a function of location data output from said integrated location sensor, via a cryptographic engine associated therewith;
wherein said HSM comprises two or more segregated hardware port-specific storage spaces each operatively linked to a corresponding one of said hardware ports via a corresponding hardware link, and storing respective secured zone-specific cryptographic data thereon exclusively retrievable as a function of said given input zone-specific cryptographic data corresponding thereto; and
wherein said cryptographic engine is operable to execute said cryptographic process based on said secured zone-specific cryptographic data retrieved from said two or more segregated hardware port-specific storage spaces as a function of said given input zone-specific cryptographic data and said location data.