February 2nd, 2013 at 09:34am
Under Advocacy
SC Magazine recently published an article on the slow adoption of Trusted Computing standards, which was also reproduced on the Trusted Computing Group’s official web site. The article starts with a story about a health trust that due to a lost laptop introduced mandatory hardware-based full-disk encryption in 2008 for laptops [was that available then?], [...]
Continue Reading TPM – ubiquitous but unloved?
Tags: sc magazine
By Ken Y-N
December 19th, 2012 at 04:49pm
Under MTM
Back in October 2012 the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released a draft mobile security technology proposal entitled "Guidelines on Hardware-Rooted Security in Mobile Devices" which elicited two main responses, one negative from the Telecommunications Industry Association due to the proposal preferring that the hardware root is a TPM, and one positive from [...]
Continue Reading NIST’s Mobile Security Guidelines
Tags: nist
By Ken Y-N
December 17th, 2012 at 04:08pm
Under Advocacy+ TPM
The Digital Policy Alliance, an NPO that highlights how technology may be used to solve government policy, regulatory and legislative issues, recently produced a short but very positive report on the Trusted Platform Module, in order to: raise awareness of the potential of trusted computing and to provide guidance for procurement and end?to?end lifecycle management [...]
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Tags: digital policy alliance
By Ken Y-N
December 17th, 2012 at 04:07pm
Under General
An official press release from Trustonic, the new venture formed by ARM, Gemalto and Giesecke and Devrient (G&D), describes what the company is all about. ARM provide the hardware solutions for TrustZone, a trustworthy execution environment found on most modern ARM-based chips (which means almost all smartphones) and Gemalto and G&D provide an operating system [...]
Continue Reading Trustonic officially launches to offer TrustZone-based solutions
Tags: trustonic, trustzone
By Ken Y-N
December 11th, 2012 at 05:17am
Under Storage
The Trusted Computing Group blog just posted a short heads-up for next month’s Storage Visions 2013 at Las Vegas on the 6th and 7th of January 2013. There will be a number of TCG members demonstrating their latest products that support TCG standards, in particular Opal for self-encrypting drives, along with lots of other companies [...]
Continue Reading TCG at Storage Visions 2013
Tags: storage visions
By Ken Y-N
December 8th, 2012 at 10:09am
Under MTM+ TPM
I’ve just realised that it’s nearly two years (eek!) since my last post. I felt 2011 was finally going to be The Year of Trusted Computing thanks to Chrome, but once again my hopes were dashed. Ever the optimist, however, next year will surely see The Year of Trusted Computing, with not just Windows 8 [...]
Continue Reading Blog of Trust reawakens!
Tags: globalplatform, tee, trustzone
By Ken Y-N
December 6th, 2012 at 10:27am
Under TPM
The Trusted Computing Group has a short news article outlining the benefits of the TPM on Windows 8; and a blog article covering the same ground. This includes BitLocker, which now is better integrated into the Windows structure and can support self-encrypting drives. There is also the virtual Smart Card feature, something I’ve heard a [...]
Continue Reading How Windows 8 benefits from a TPM
Tags: bitlocker, windows 8
By Ken Y-N
December 4th, 2012 at 10:20am
Under Advocacy
At the above summit in India on December 11th and 12th there will be two talks by TCG advocates, the first being Aman Puri, Fujitsu India’s Head of IT Solutions, and second Pratap Kesarkar, Worldwide Director, Technical Business Development at Wave Systems. More details can be found here at the official site.
Continue Reading TCG at India’s NASSCOM – DSCI Information Security Summit 2012
Tags: india
By Ken Y-N
December 1st, 2012 at 10:48am
Under Advocacy
Ars Technica published an excellent article looking back at a paper published 10 years ago by four guys at Microsoft entitled "The Darknet and the Future of Content Distribution" (download in .doc format here). This is the first I’ve heard of this and I’ve not read it yet, so I’ll be working from Ars Technica’s [...]
Continue Reading Some history of Microsoft, TPM, and DRM
Tags: ars technica, drm
By Ken Y-N
November 28th, 2012 at 04:17pm
Under Storage
A recent press release by CMS Products Inc would have been helped greatly by a picture, as this description made little sense: CMS Products Inc [...] announced the availability of the first self-encrypting drive module bay drive (SED) that meets the Opal standard from Trusted Computing Group (TCG). CE-Secure DiskVault – Module Bay Edition is [...]
Continue Reading CMS Products release a dockable Opal-compliant drive
Tags: cms products, dell, opal
By Ken Y-N