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

Claim 0:
1. An integrated network security appliance comprising:
a hardware-integrated processing engine operable to implement a trusted network-related resource;
an integrated digital data processor operable to execute said processing engine;
an integrated data storage resource accessible to said processing engine to implement said trusted network-related resource;
an integrated location sensor;
an embedded hardware security module (HSM) hardwired to interface with said hardware-integrated processing engine via a dedicated hardware-isolated communication path, and operable to execute a trusted internal cryptographic process associated with said trusted network-related resource as a function of location data output from said integrated location sensor; and
a trusted hardware switch having a plurality of hardware ports associated therewith and configured to define in hardware multiple hardware-isolated data communication paths embedded therein comprising said dedicated hardware-isolated communication path with said HSM;
wherein said hardware-integrated processing engine comprises two or more hardware-integrated processing engines each operable to implement a corresponding network-related resource; and
wherein each of said processing engines interfaces with at least one of said hardware ports in hardware so to route processing engine traffic therethrough along selected ones of said multiple embedded communication paths to operatively interconnect said processing engines through internal integrated hardware network connections while invoking, along said dedicated hardware-isolated communication path, said trusted internal cryptographic process as a function of said location data.