US Patent 9794270 Data security and integrity by remote attestation

The invention includes a system comprising a device, software installed on the device and coupled to the device's hardware and software stack to execute data encryption and remote attestation. The invention includes a process to configure the device for encryption and remote attestation and performing an initial inventory and content scan of the device's hardware and software stack with results transmitted across a communication network to the attestation server. The invention includes periodic inventory and content scans of the device's hardware and software stack with results transmitted again to the server via the network. The attestation server stores the results in a database for comparison to subsequent results sent by devices. The attestation server notes any differences in the most recent results and sends an alert to the device if the device is configured differently based on the previous scan, or configured the same if no differences were noted.