A method and system for activating and obtaining a license for a software product is disclosed. A local license is obtained from a storage medium of the software product and is stored with the software product on a user's computer. The local license allows for one of multiple license types to be activated from a single software product. The user enters a product key containing a channel ID. The compact disk or other storage medium is searched for the appropriate local license for the channel ID....

The disclosure describes a method for securing the trustworthiness of an electronic device. At least first and second check-up data are stored in the electronic device. In the method, a first step of a boot program is executed. In the first boot step, the trustworthiness of the first check-up data is examined, wherein if the check-up shows that the first check-up data is trusted, the second check-up data related to the second boot step is examined to confirm the trustworthiness of the second boo...

Systems and methods are provided for maintaining and updating a secure boot process on a computer with a trusted platform module (TPM). A boot process may be maintained by inspecting a log of TPM activity, determining data that prevented a secret to unseal, and returning the data to an original state. In situations where this type of recovery is not workable, techniques for authenticating a user may be used, allowing the authenticated user to bypass the security features of the boot process and ...

A method (and system) for detecting intrusions to stored data includes creating a point-time-copy of a logical unit, and comparing at least a portion of the point-time-copy with a previous copy of the logical unit. The method (and system) monitors access to a data storage system and detects an intrusion or any other intentional or unintentional, unwanted modification to data stored in the data storage system. The method (and system) also recovers data once an intrusion or other unwanted modifica...

First, an ID added disc is loaded. A disc ID is read from the disc at step S2. The disc ID matches a hardware ID of hardware that can use software recorded on the disc. If the disc ID has not been read from the disc, an error process is performed. At step S3, a hardware ID of hardware connected to a personal computer is obtained. At step S4, it is determined whether or not both the IDs match. When the determined result represents that they match, at step S5, an application starts. When the deter...

Methods and apparatus are disclosed for playing content. In one embodiment, an identification key is generated. The identification key is encrypted and transmitted to a playback drive. Encrypted content containing a content identification key is received. If the content identification key matches the identification key that was generated, the content is decrypted and played.

A method of digital media copy protection is disclosed. The method of the present invention is applicable to any type of digital media data and makes no assumptions on any specific media properties. The method includes a process of protecting digital media data with a public key using a hybrid cryptographic technique, a process of watermarking the media data, and an output device compliance testing process through an authenticated handshake protocol. Because of the media data protection with the...

A log management system is devised to easily discover improper handling log information by managers. Virtual operation systems (OS) are respectively installed for respective users in a file server constructed as an NAS device. These virtual OS function as virtual NAS. The virtual OS and manager OS exchange information relating to log information via an information exchange part constructed as a kernel. The log information produced in the virtual OS is transmitted to a first log management device...

A method and system for detecting and removing malicious code from a computer system. The method determines an operating system of the computer system, scans the computer system for malicious code based on the operating system and detects the malicious code. The method and system may also remove the malicious code from the computer system. The method may retrieve from a data file, information relating to the malicious code including at least one command for restoring the computer system to a sta...

A method of automatically classifying alerts issued by intrusion detection sensors (11a, 11b, 11c) of an information security system (1) for producing collated alerts, each alert being defined by a plurality of qualitative attributes (a.sub.1, . . . , a.sub.n) belonging to a plurality of attribute domains (A1, . . . , An). Attributes belonging to each attribute domain are organized into a hierarchical structure. For each alert issued by the intrusion detection sensors (11a, 11b, 11c), a trellis ...