May 12th, 2008 at 10:46am Under TCG
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.
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May 8th, 2008 at 08:39pm Under TCG
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 [...]
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May 8th, 2008 at 02:36pm Under TCG
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 [...]
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April 18th, 2008 at 03:22pm Under TCG
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 [...]
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April 13th, 2008 at 02:32pm Under TCG
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 [...]
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April 8th, 2008 at 01:09pm Under TCG
With the RSA Conference in full swing at San Francisco, the security-related press releases are coming thick and fast. This time it is Seagate, with their new Cheetah series of self-encrypting hard drives. This drive series has Full Disk Encryption (FDE), spins at 15,600 rpm, and is suited for mission-critical servers and storage arrays. It [...]
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April 7th, 2008 at 02:19pm Under TCG
As mentioned in an earlier post, Wave Systems will be presenting Trusted Computing Group-related solutions at the RSA Conference 2008 at the Moscone Center, San Francisco today. The presentation will be entitled “TCG: The Trusted Platform: How To Enable, How To Use and How To Benefit” and presented by Brian Berger, executive vice president, marketing [...]
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April 7th, 2008 at 02:18pm Under TCG
If you are resident in San Francisco you perhaps still have time to head down to the conference at the Moscone Center to catch the pre-conference “day of content”, with a free lunch, prize draw, and of course lots and lots of Trusted Computing Group news and demonstrations. Even if you can’t make it today, [...]
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March 30th, 2008 at 02:09pm Under TCG
There is an interesting, thought-provoking post written by Rob Enderle on the Trusted Computing Group’s official blog that reminds everyone the key to the TCG and TPM is the T for Trust. First, what is trust? Here is the definition from the article: At the core of trust is the belief I can depend on [...]
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March 25th, 2008 at 02:29pm Under TCG
The latest news from New Zealand is that the State Services Commission’s (SSC) e-government unit has transferred development of trusted computing and digital rights management (TC/DRM) standards to Archives New Zealand. The country first started looking at these issues in 2006, and in 2007 the SSC issued standards that supported these principles and policies for [...]
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