公开(公告)号：US10075439B1

公开(公告)日：2018-09-11

申请号：US15158998

申请日：2016-05-19

Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Ryan J. Mullens ,  Sachin Vasant ,  Raphael Luckom ,  Denis Knjazihhin ,  Yedidya Dotan

IPC: H04L9/32 ,  H04L29/06 ,  H04L12/24 ,  H04L12/931 ,  H04L29/08 ,  G06F8/65

CPC classification number: H04L63/0884 ,  G06F8/65 ,  H04L9/3247 ,  H04L41/082 ,  H04L63/0281 ,  H04L63/0442 ,  H04L63/126 ,  H04L67/327 ,  H04L67/34 ,  H04L2209/72

Abstract: A method is provided in which a development environment sends commands to an on-premises device that are signed by both (a) development environment and by (b) an execution environment (trusted source), and account for versioning. In so doing, the on-premises device that receives the command is able to authenticate both the sending entity, i.e., a production server, and the source of the command files to determine that the command is a valid configuration/upgrade package that may be safely installed and executed.