A method includes managing a purposed-devices by registering the purposed-devices with a purposed-device management platform, uploading a purposed application to each of the purposed-devices, limiting operation of each of the purposed-devices such that only purposed applications may be active, and monitoring the settings and usage of the purposed application for conformance to an intended purpose. If a nonconforming usage occurs, the method includes prompting an alert, and taking an action based on the alert.

A mailbox mechanism is used for communication of secure messages from a server to the firmware of a device. Mailbox content provided by the server is authenticated in a driver execution environment of the device, using reboots across the communication sessions, and then stored in secure storage. The communication sessions include first receiving a signed server key, and then receiving a message from the server that is based on a hash of a nonce generated by the device.

A method of authorizing an operation to be performed on a targeted computing device is provided. The method includes generating a request to perform an operation on the targeted computing device, signing the request with a private key of a first private, public key pair, transmitting the request to an authentication server, receiving an authorization response from the authentication server that includes the request and an authorization token, and transmitting the authorization response to the targeted computing device.

A biometric handheld vaporizer has a housing, a mouthpiece, an oil reservoir, an atomizer, a battery, a battery charging port, a fingerprint sensor, and a microcontroller. The handheld vaporizer remains inoperable until a user submits a photo ID for age verification. One method of using a biometric handheld vaporizer involves inputting fingerprints into the vaporizer, the fingerprints stored on the microcontroller; and, when a user desires to use the vaporizer, placing the authorized fingerprint on the fingerprint sensor, which, upon authorization, closes a circuit to activate an atomizer within the vaporizer.

A method for logging of a remote control session, for use in a remote control system comprising a session initiator operable to initiate a remote control session having a session identifier between a first computer and a second computer and a generator for generating a secure data structure comprising a data structure identifier, the method comprising the steps of: in response to generation by the generator of the secure data structure, initiating an associated first remote control session having a first session identifier; capturing data associated with a remote control function executable by a first computer for control of the second computer during the remote control session; obtaining the data structure identifier; and using the data structure identifier and the first session identifier to store the captured data in the secure data structure associated with the remote control session.

A method for operating a medical system includes providing a public-private key pair for asymmetric cryptography, wherein the public key is provided to remote control and medical devices, and the private key is provided to a security module, encrypting a control command with the public key in the remote control, receiving the encrypted control command in the security module, decrypting the encrypted control command with the private key, encrypting a security module control command with the private key applied to the decrypted control command or an amended medical control command derived from the decrypted control command, receiving the security module control command in the medical device, decrypting the security module control command with the public key, and controlling operation of the medical device according to the decrypted security module control command, if confirmed by a user confirmation input received in the security module or the medical device.

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining, by a system comprising a processor, a driver profile according to a driver identity for a driver of a vehicle, selecting a driver-specific enforcement scenario for the vehicle according to the driver profile and traffic enforcement information that is associated with a vehicle location, and presenting an in-vehicle alert to convey the driver-specific enforcement scenario to the driver. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Methods and systems are described for managing access to a virtual session. A user device can send a request for a virtual session to a virtual desktop interface (“VDI”) server. The VDI server can send details of a user's account to a management server. The management server can send a machine learning (“ML”) model trained to identify the user's face to the user device. The user device can apply the ML model to a video feed of the viewing area of the user device to verify the user's face. The VDI server can initialize the virtual session if the user's face is verified. The user device can monitor the video feed during the virtual session to detect unauthorized objects. If an unauthorized object is detected, the user device can terminate or minimize the session.

A system is provided and includes a resource, locking elements and a controller. The resource includes multiple independently securable resources. The locking elements are respectively configured to assume a locked condition in which corresponding ones of the multiple independently securable resources are locked and an unlocked condition in which the corresponding ones of the multiple securable resources are unlocked. The controller is receptive of an instruction to authorize users to unlock the one or more of the multiple independently securable resources and is configured to perform operating system (OS) level authentication of the users and OS level control of the locking elements in accordance with the instruction to authorize users and the OS level authentication.

According to one embodiment, a system includes a medical device configured to provide a function to a user, communicate via a wireless communication channel with one or more other devices, and send a signal to shift a medical device application from a locked state to an unlocked state. The system also includes a computing device having wireless communication channels and a processor and logic integrated with and/or executable by the processor. The logic is configured to cause the computing device to communicate with the medical device, execute the medical device application, and shift from the locked state to the unlocked state in response to receiving the signal from the medical device. Core functionality of the medical device application is disabled when the medical device application is in the locked state, and some functionality applicable to the medical device is enabled when the medical device application is in the unlocked state.