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April 23rd, 2010 at 03:52pm
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An article from TMCnet.com (translated from the Chinese source, it seems) discussed the growth in the Chinese security market, describing a predicted growth of 21.5% on average over the next three years. The growth sectors were listed as: [M]obile Internet security, mobile cloud computing security, trusted computing, trusted network, security authentication, security management, data security, [...]
Continue Reading Information security market in China to grow by over 20% annually
Tags: china
By Ken Y-N
April 23rd, 2010 at 03:38pm
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A report from Vivek Kunda, the USA’s Chief Information Officer, regarding the release of new FISMA (Federal Information Security Management Act) guidance, was published on the Gov Monitor web site. Although the article says that this guidance was published on the same day as the column, there’s no link and Google doesn’t return anything useful. [...]
Continue Reading Guidance for FISMA compliance issues
Tags: fisma, gov monitor
By Ken Y-N
April 21st, 2010 at 04:49pm
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I picked up an interesting post about a new service from Beyond Oblivion Inc, which will offer social networking plus unlimited access to Digital Rights Managed music. There are two backers announced, providing a total of $10 million in funding; first is Allen & Co, an investment bank that specialises in the entertainment business, and [...]
Continue Reading Beyond Oblivion – another new DRM-protected music service
Tags: beyond oblivion, drm, intertrust
By Ken Y-N
March 25th, 2010 at 03:24pm
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I came across a recently-published but recorded a year ago at TRUST 2009 at Oxford a talk by Sean Smith on Trusted Computing and security in general. It’s rather long – just under an hour – and I’ve not had time to watch it all the way through, but he mentioned he had worked with [...]
Continue Reading Video: Trusted Computing Rants, Regrets, and Research by Sean Smith
Tags: oxford, sean smith, trust 2009
By Ken Y-N
March 24th, 2010 at 03:58pm
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The TCG blog has announced the TCG, and the Trusted Network Connect workgroup in particular, will be appearing at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas for Interop. They’ll be at booth #1063 showing stuff around the theme of "TNC Everywhere: Pervasive Security", including physical access-linked controls and SCADA system defences. I’ve seen early versions of [...]
Continue Reading Trusted Computing Group at Interop Las Vegas
Tags: if-map, interop
By Ken Y-N
March 10th, 2010 at 04:09pm
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As well as mixing up Trusted Computing and Trustworthy Computing, the article by Gary Richmond had this bit of badly-written hyperbole that gave me a laugh: Barely a day goes by when you switch on your computer, plug into the web and come across yet another deranged scheme to restrict freedom in the name of [...]
Continue Reading Free Software Magazine lays into trusted computing, Microsoft, and just about everything else
Tags: ranting
By Ken Y-N
March 3rd, 2010 at 03:07pm
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Whilst searching for something completely different I happened to come across a YouTube channel from TCGadmin that features a few videos of TCG demonstrations, such as this one:
Continue Reading Trusted Computing the Movie
Tags: youtube
By Ken Y-N
February 27th, 2010 at 03:27pm
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Here’s another interesting device from IronKey, this time partnering with Becrypt to implement a portable secure virtual operating system for access to corporate networks for mobile workers. The heart of the device is: Trusted Client is a cost-effective, secure mobility solution that uses its own hardened and encrypted operating system. It solves the problem of [...]
Continue Reading Becrypt and IronKey partner for secure mobile environments
Tags: becrypt, ironkey
By Ken Y-N
February 26th, 2010 at 03:18pm
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A recent press release from IronKey discussed their Trusted Access for Banking solution, a dongle that plugs into any PC and on entering the correct password (only a password, not multi-factor authentication?), performs a health check of the host PC and launches a virtualised operating system with a secure browser, and also uses one time [...]
Continue Reading Trusted access for corporate banking solution from IronKey
Tags: ironkey, trusted access for banking
By Ken Y-N
February 9th, 2010 at 03:41pm
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Wave Systems recently released a press release describing how they have upgraded their EMBASSY suite of software to handle Intel’s vPro technology. Intel vPro has hardware-embedded secure remote management technology, which Wave exploit to allow the IT department to securely access a PC at any time, updating TPM states and managing Opel-compliant self-encrypting drives, in [...]
Continue Reading Wave Systems add support for Intel’s vPro
Tags: intel, wave
By Ken Y-N