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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
Tags: brian berger, wave
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 authentication [...]
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 from [...]
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 if [...]
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
Tags: interop
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 is [...]
Continue Reading Wave System demonstrations at Interop Las Vegas 2008
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By Ken Y-N
May 8th, 2008 at 02:36pm
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One of the biggest buzzes from the recent Interop Las Vegas conference, the leading event for the networking industry, was the announcement of the Trusted Computing Group’s (TCG) Trusted Network Connect (TNC) workgroup’s new protocol, IF-MAP, the Interface for Metadata Access Point.
With many of the 140-plus member companies of the TCG contributing towards this specification, [...]
Continue Reading IF-MAP protocol excites Interop
Tags: if-map, interop, open source
By Ken Y-N
April 18th, 2008 at 03:22pm
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As mentioned in this blog last week, the RSA Conference 2008 at San Francisco has a Trusted Computing Group (TCG) day. The TCG official blog reported on the experience.
It wasn’t just the TCG day, but the whole RSA Conference event was packed! TCG has their room split into four areas; one on Trusted Network Connect [...]
Continue Reading Trusted Computing Group at RSA Conference 2008 San Francisco
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By Ken Y-N
April 13th, 2008 at 02:32pm
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Last week was the fifth anniversary of the formation of Trusted Computing Group (TCG). In these five years the TCG has grown to some 140 or more member companies, authored dozens of specifications, and has the Trusted Plaform Module shipped in over 100 million computers.
Read TCG Executive Director Tom Flynn’s full post at the official [...]
Continue Reading Happy birthday to the TCG!
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