Patent ID: 11880496
Assignee: WHITESTAR COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 14:
15. An apparatus implemented as a physical machine, the apparatus comprising:
a volatile random access memory (RAM);
non-transitory machine readable media configured for storing executable machine readable code;
a device interface circuit configured for communications with a data network; and
a processor circuit configured for executing the machine readable code, and when executing the machine readable code operable for:
determining a risk of the apparatus having been infected by a persistent consistent threat based on detecting attributes associated with the apparatus, and
presenting, based on the risk, a recommendation to a user of the apparatus to execute a prescribed hard reset that erases all data and executable code from the volatile RAM, the prescribed hard reset causing erasure of any persistent consistent threat residing in the volatile RAM;
wherein the processor circuit is configured for determining the risk based on determining an elapsed boot time of the network device relative to a prior hard reset.