Patent 9081954 was granted and assigned to Intel on July, 2015 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for receiving an integrity request in a device of a computer system from a software entity external to the device, performing a measurement of firmware of the device using an integrity measurement logic of the device, analyzing a plurality of pointer structures of the device to determine whether a potential security violation exists, and sending the measurement and a status report regarding the analysis to the software entity. Other embodiments are described and claimed.