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June 4th, 2008 at 10:45pm
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A recent press release regarding the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) announced that Wave Systems had accepted an invitiation from the TCG to take a permanent seat on the board of directors, joining AMD, HP, IBM, Infineon, Intel, Lenovo, Microsoft, Sun and Seagate Technology. In addition, Wave has also raised its membership level to Promotor, the [...]
Continue Reading Wave Systems becomes permanent member of TCG Board
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By Ken Y-N
June 4th, 2008 at 01:59pm
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With Interop Tokyo coming up next week, to coincide the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) has announced that they are launching a new Japan Regional Forum to support interaction with and adoption of Trusted Computing within Japan. In addition, at the show they will also be demonstrating various Trusted Computing-based solutions from companies such as Aruba [...]
Continue Reading TCG launches Japan Regional Forum
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By Ken Y-N
June 2nd, 2008 at 01:48pm
Under Advocacy+ TCG
Gaith Taha at Avert Labs recently published part two of an introduction to the Trusted Platform Module (TPM). My review of part one may be found here. This time the focus is on the aspect that makes many people very afraid (due to ignorance, I would argue), namely the loss of privacy and vendor lock-in, [...]
Continue Reading McAfee on Trusted Computing – Part 2
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By Ken Y-N
May 29th, 2008 at 01:25pm
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For those of you relatively new to the Trusted Computing world, this recent article from Brian Berger, the Trusted Computing Group’s (TCG) marketing workgroup chair and Wave System’s execute VP for sales and marketing, may provide a useful overview of what the TCG is all about. First of all he addresses the issue that sceptics [...]
Continue Reading Overview Guide to Trusted Computing
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By Ken Y-N
May 26th, 2008 at 06:04pm
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Another company has joined the Trusted Computing Group (TCG), namely Great Bay Software. They bring to the table expertise in the field of network-based authentication. Steve Pettit, president of Great Bay Software, said the following: “Great Bay Software’s specific attention to discovering and provisioning non-authenticating devices and on behavior monitoring as a complement to network-based [...]
Continue Reading Great Bay Software signs up to the Trusted Computing Group
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By Ken Y-N
May 26th, 2008 at 12:03am
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One of the the pioneering applications for the Trusted Computing Group’s (TCG) initiatives was implemented at a large New England-based pizza chain. Paul Korzeniowski of Dark Reading wrote up the details of what went on at Papa Gino’s. The problem that Papa Gino’s had was that every year when it came time to collect information [...]
Continue Reading Biometrics makes pizza-making infrastructure more reliable
Tags: biometrics, dell, papa gino, wave
By Ken Y-N
May 14th, 2008 at 01:36pm
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Network World recently published a very long chat log where security guru Joel Snyder from Opus One answered questions live from participants on matters regarding Network Access Contrl (NAC) and Trusted Computing. Catch the full fourteen-page chat log at Network World here.
Continue Reading Interview with Joel Snyder on NAC
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By Ken Y-N
May 13th, 2008 at 02:05pm
Under Advocacy+ TCG
Now, this will be a fascinating series of posts. Gaith Taha of McAfee Avert Labs has started a beginner’s guide to the Trusted Computing Group’s (TCG) Trusted Platform Module (TPM), starting off from what it is (a small chipset on your motherboard) to a broad overview of key functionality. She (or is it he, sorry [...]
Continue Reading McAfee on Trusted Computing – Part 1
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By Ken Y-N
May 12th, 2008 at 10:46am
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Just a quick note that the official Trusted Computing Group blog has been updated with some news from the floor at Interop Las Vegas. It’s worth reading for a short example of what the IF-MAP (Interface-Metadata Access Point) protocol can do. Read the full story here.
Continue Reading Official TCG blog updated re Interop Las Vegas
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By Ken Y-N
May 8th, 2008 at 08:39pm
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This report on a press release from Wave Systems is a bit late since Interop is already finished, but just for the record, here’s what Wave Systems were planning on demonstrating. Their Network Access Control (NAC) solution allows the management of devices trying to connect to the network such as ensuring that full disk encryption [...]
Continue Reading Wave System demonstrations at Interop Las Vegas 2008
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By Ken Y-N