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

Claim 10:
11. A computing device comprising:
non-volatile storage device to store a description of a BIOS administrator password;
a trusted platform module (TPM) to store a copy of the description of the BIOS administrator password, wherein the copy of the description is a previously made copy of the description stored in the non-volatile storage device;
compromise detection circuitry to:
determine whether the computing device has been compromised based on a comparison between the description of the BIOS administrator password stored in the non-volatile storage device and the copy of the description of the BIOS administrator password stored in the TPM, and
in response to a determination that the computing device has been compromised, delete contents of the TPM.