Patent attributes
In one embodiment, a security provisioning service automatically establishes trust in a device. Upon receiving a provisioning request, a security provisioning service identifies a verification item that is associated with the provisioning request. The security provisioning service performs one or more verification operations based on the provisioning request to determine whether the provisioning request is authorized. If the provisioning request is authorized, then the provisioning service establishes a verifiable identification for the device that is assured by the secure provisioning service and then executes the provisioning request. By automatically performing the verification operations to establish trust in the device, the provisioning service eliminates manual identification assurance operations that are performed as part of a conventional security provisioning process. Reducing the time and effort required to perform security provisioning increases the number of devices likely to implement security processes that increase the overall security of interacting using the Internet.
